It sure isn't anything like the people I know who deer hunt, but Missouri and Kentucky aren't Michigan, either, and I don't know anything about how those folks up Nort do things.
I had a copy of it, gave it to some folks from Missouri, but they didn't seem to think much of it. I think a lot of it went over their heads. It's still there, as far as I know.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
Saw the live play written by Jeff Daniels. Having spent time in da nort, I appreciate it as a hyperbolic attempt at humor. Good, no. Fun, kinda. See it once, enough.
Yoopers are a different breed. If your from downstate your lower than whaleshit on their chart. Lots of "Never seen a downstater that could wup a yooper" types. Best part is the people that retire up there. Been there a month and talk about downstate like its all Detroit. Only reason to deer hunt in the UP of Michigan is if you LOVE your venison tasting like pine needles.
First saw this as a play at a local little theater. Enjoyed it immensely. The movie, not so much. Part of the enjoyment was hearing people pretend to talk like my wife's relatives in the UP. Her mother moved there from Sweden in 1904, when she was two years old. They lived on the Stonington Peninsula, that divides Little and Big Bays de Noc. As a young girl, she would walk or hitch a ride in a sleigh across Little Bay de Noc to Escanaba, to sell butter and eggs. One trip she didn't make, the farmer, his horses and sleigh apparently when through the ice, as they were never heard from again. Life was extremely hard, as she was the youngest of three girls, and their father died when she was about six.
They had it playing in Wal Mart in the hunting area. What I saw was the fart scene in the bunkhouse. I figured that any movie with a good fart scene had to be good.
Watch it the night of November 14 every year - in a cabin about 100 miles North of Escanaba. My pre-national holiday tradition. Know more than a few people in that area that would fit right in with folks in the movie.
