The Paperboy (2012) on Netflix
In 1969, reporter Ward Jansen comes home to Florida to question the death row conviction of Hillary Van Wetter, an alligator hunter. His brother Jack drives him, and Charlotte Bless joins them.
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Plot summary
Lately, Florida, the summer of 1969. Ward Jansen, an investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his hometown with his colleague Yardley Acheman to reexamine the conviction of Hillary Van Wetter, an alligator hunter from the swamp who is on death row for the 1965 killing of Sheriff Thurmond Call. Ward brings along his younger brother Jack, a former champion swimmer who dropped out of college and now delivers the local paper for their father, W.W. Jansen, as the driver. Charlotte Bless, a woman from Mobile, Alabama, has written to Van Wetter in prison and considers herself engaged to him; she joins the reporters on their visits. Anita Chester, the family's former maid, looks back on that summer, when Jack found himself drawn to Charlotte.
Cast
- Danny Hanemannas Sheriff Thurmond Call
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Paperboy (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Daniels admitted getting cold feet while editing about keeping the scene in which Kidman urinates on Zac Efron, and consulted her about removing it; she reportedly told him: “Lee, you made me pee on Zac Efron. If you don't put it in the movie, you need to man up.”
- During the shoot Kidman communicated with Cusack only as her character, Charlotte, saying “I wanted to deal with him as the character and have him deal with me as the character”. As a joke after filming wrapped, Cusack went up to her and formally introduced himself.
- Mariah Carey wrote and recorded a song titled “Mesmerized” for the film's soundtrack, but it was not released to coincide with the film; it finally appeared on 2 October 2020 on The Rarities, her collection of previously hard-to-find and unreleased songs.
