Vernon, Florida

1981 · 55 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 3,728 VOTES · DIR. Errol Morris

Vernon, Florida poster

Overview

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.

Dialogue Timeline — 717 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:28 Reality.
00:05:26 and hope that you hear one.
00:07:37 And if all four...
00:10:33 Go ahead.
00:13:11 call agobblEr away from a pack of hens, just anytime...
00:15:08 So I'm waiting for it to get back here.
00:16:52 I could hear them a-fluttering just 'cause I run out on the hill with it.
00:19:24 He's not a turtle. He's harmless. He won't bite you.
00:21:41 He was coming straight towards me. He wasn't walking. He wasn't running.
00:24:35 And you know, that's got to be a red-hot track...
00:26:20 And I shot him and just rolled him over.
00:28:03 This here is what they call an orchard-worm wiggler.
00:30:02 They were looking at the water and one says:
00:32:07 I tell you, he had two shells laying under the slLI of the house.
00:33:56 of finding one that I could afford...
00:35:56 "and the party that was going to buy it didn't go through with the deaI."
00:38:01 And so I looked up the word "indeclinable"...
00:40:04 Perhaps there's someone here this morning who's never received Christ...
00:42:06 I traveled along the road, you know, with a fellow in a car...
00:44:15 I don't know if this is a star or what.
00:46:17 the tension bulLds up.
00:48:12 when the end of the world is.
00:50:19 I said, "What made them? How come I'm here?"
00:52:33 And now, you see, my jar is nearly full.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed717
Dialogue density13.0 lines / min
First line00:02:28
Final line00:52:33

Production Record

DirectorErrol Morris
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes3,728