62%User score 62 percent
My Own Love Song
2010 · Comedy · Drama
User Score
57 votes
Boon is a reiver (that's a cheat, a liar, a brawler and womaniser) and he had just four days to teach young Lucius the facts of life (like cheating, lying, brawling and womanizing).
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
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Wuchak
November 7, 2022
**_McQueen hams it up in Faulkner’s early 1900’s Southern misadventure_** In northern Mississippi, 1905, the first automobile is brought to town, a yellow Winton Flyer, bought by the patriarch of the McCaslin family (Will Geer). A likable rapscallion named Boon (Steve McQueen) talks the 11 year-old McCaslin grandson (Mitch Vogel) into going to Memphis in the “borrowed” vehicle for a few days while gramps is out of to…
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CinemaSerf
July 15, 2025
This reminded me of one of those live-action films that Disney put out in the 1960s and 70s. A big star (Steve McQueen) is friends with a young lad (Mitch Vogel) and together with his cheeky friend “Ned” (Rupert Crosse) they “borrow” the bright yellow Lincoln motor car of his grandfather (Will Geer) and head off for some adventures. First things first, to Memphis they travel where “Boon” (McQ) is hoping to see his ga…
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July 15, 2025
This reminded me of one of those live-action films that Disney put out in the 1960s and 70s. A big star (Steve McQueen) is friends with a young lad (Mitch Vogel) and together with his cheeky friend “Ned” (Rupert Crosse) they “borrow” the bright yellow Lincoln motor car of his grandfather (Will Geer) and head off for some adventures. First things first, to Memphis they travel where “Boon” (McQ) is hoping to see his ga…
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