Bright Leaves

Synopsis: American filmmaker Ross McElwee travels to his home state of North Carolina for the humorous documentary Bright Leaves. In his trademarked rambling style, McElwee lightly questions his family's role in the tobacco industry. Following the Civil War, his great-grandfather John McElwee had a hand in creating the tobacco company Bull Durham, but lost his fortune to business partner Washington Duke in a lawsuit. In order to find out if his grandfather inspired Gary Cooper's character in the 1950 film Bright Leaf, McElwee travels around the tobacco-rich state to places like the Duke mansion, the Double Take Film Festival, and the annual crowning of Miss Tobacco.     Source: RottenTomatoes.com