Vernon, Florida

For his second documentary feature, Errol Morris originally set out to chronicle Vernon, FL, because it had the highest rate of a particular sort of insurance fraud -- dismemberment performed for profit -- than any other place in the country. Nothing of that original idea survives in the film ...more

Vernon, Florida is one of the rare documentaries that gets funnier every time it's seen. Errol Morris simply invades a small town in the Florida Panhandle, turns on his camera, and lets things go from there. To those uninitiated in the ways of Morris, the first reaction upon viewing the film is that it all has to be staged. There is simply no way that any of the people who appear in the film can be telling the tales they tell without their fingers crossed behind their back. That lack of ...more