A man manages to break free from his dysfunctional family and move away to build a new life with his wife, but is summoned back to the homestead in Little Rock when his uncle is thrown into jail on an attempted murder charge. Black comedy, directed by and starring Billy Bob Thornton. With Jim Varney, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Ben Affleck and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.