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Nebraska

Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, and June Squibb Directed by: Alexander Payne Screenplay by: Bob Nelson      Let me begin by saying that if you don't like black and white movies, Nebraska is not the movie for you.      Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) has won $1 million.  At least, that's what he thinks.  We first meet Woody Grant on the side of the highway in Billings, Montana, where he is walking (or at least attempting to walk) to Lincoln, Nebraska to collect his winnings.  He's a pretty old man with some other issues in his life and walking there isn't the smartest idea, even for any young person.  His son, David (Will Forte) and his wife, Kate (June Squibb) think he's crazy and assume that his potential winning of $1 million is all a hoax.  But Woody believes it to be true.      So, David gets in a car with his father and they drive all the way to Lincoln to collect the winnings.  Along the way, they stop in Hawthorne, Nebraska, where the family is originally fr