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Finding Normal (2013)

TV Movie  |  Comedy  |  18 May 2013 (USA)
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The only thing standing between Dr. Lisa Leland (Candice Cameron Bure) and the wedding of her dreams in the Hamptons is a 2600-mile drive from Los Angeles to Long Island. However, a run in ... See full summary »

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Doc Shelby
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Dr. Steve
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Mandy
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Dr. Maggie Parks
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Dr. Lisa Leland
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Rita Caffey
Jim Elliott ...
Judge Denton (as Big Jim Elliot)
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Maria (as Delia Cobos)
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Jimmer
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Lester Toole
Ashleigh Jolly ...
Carly
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Hispanic Woman
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Kimberly
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Lucas Craig
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The only thing standing between Dr. Lisa Leland (Candice Cameron Bure) and the wedding of her dreams in the Hamptons is a 2600-mile drive from Los Angeles to Long Island. However, a run in with the law in the country town of Normal, Louisiana leaves Dr. Leland with a choice--Jail or community service. Sentenced to serve three days as the town's doctor, Lisa has her world turned upside down by a man she would never expect. Quickly, Lisa finds that there's a lot more to Normal than she could have ever imagined. Written by Jeremy M.

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Candace Cameron Bure is Kirk Cameron's Sister See more »

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When Lucas is in the restaurant and pulls the deed out of the envelope, the seal shows it is registered in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Ouachita Parish, Louisiana is where the movie was filmed, but the land is located where the story is set, in Normal, North Carolina. See more »

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pure fantasy and maybe hypocritical
15 June 2014 | by (Boone, Nc) – See all my reviews

There are so many errors in this film, it is nearly ludicrous.

A successful woman surgeon, leaving Los Angeles to drive to New York for a job in the Hamptons where she will making obscene amounts of money is caught speeding and, unable to pay the fine, she sentenced to three days' community service in a small rural NC town. She is taken under the wing of the judge, a black man who guides her through several poignant experiences and community gatherings wherein she finds God and changes the direction of her life.

The whole premise of the movie is preposterous, but the part I resent is the portrayal of a non-existent idyllic lifestyle in small rural NC town without the recognition of the rampant poverty that exists in such towns.

The notion that a small, apparently all white rural NC town would hero worship a black man, making him their spiritual, civic, and legal leader is preposterous. Furthermore, it is most unlikely that in NC, a black man would have been allowed to adopt white children in the 80's, or even now for that matter.

That a Yankee would find such an immediate welcome in a small NC town is questionable.

The idea that providing leftovers from a pancake breakfast to those in need is a laudable act worth mentioning in an area where one in four children is undernourished in abominable.

I could rant on, but I won't.


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