Waking Up in Reno

Country singer Dwight Yoakam is a co-producer of this Miramax comedy about marital infidelity among the Southern redneck set. Auto dealer Lonnie Earl (Billy Bob Thornton) and his wife, Darlene (Natasha Richardson), are best friends with good-natured Roy (Patrick Swayze) and his spitfire wife, Candy ...more

Waking Up in Reno was originally entitled Wakin' Up in Reno, but the King's English "g" was affixed on the end, apparently in an attempt to make it seem less provincially Southern. Jordan Brady's film actually succeeds in that regard without any title finagling, respecting its quartet of essentially good-natured but flawed protagonists whose close friendships have made them recklessly familiar with each other's spouses. Once the film gets going on the road to Reno, it unfolds as a nice character ...more

Release Date: 04/08/2003