Daltry Calhoun
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Daltry Calhoun is a 2005 film
Film
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, written and directed by Katrina Holden Bronson
Katrina Holden Bronson
Katrina Holden Bronson is an American film director, screenwriter and actress. She is the adopted daughter of fellow actors Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland.-Filmography:* Last Exit to Earth - actress* Defying Gravity - actress...

 and starring Johnny Knoxville
Johnny Knoxville
Philip John Clapp , better known by his stage name Johnny Knoxville, is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, stunt performer, best known for being the co-creator and principal star of the MTV reality series Jackass, with the catchphrase "I'm Johnny Knoxville, and welcome to Jackass."-Early...

 as the lead character Daltry Calhoun and Sophie Traub
Sophie Traub
Sophie Traub is a Canadian actress. Her roles include Lucy, in the short film, Pink , June alongside co-star Johnny Knoxville in Daltry Calhoun , Young Silvia in The Interpreter and Lori alongside co-star Russell Crowe in Tenderness .She attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto for...

 as his estranged daughter. Famed director Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

 is one of the film's executive producers.

The plot involves small town Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

 and the character Daltry Calhoun who is wrestling for control over his fading golf club
Country club
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 and is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy
Child prodigy
A child prodigy is someone who, at an early age, masters one or more skills far beyond his or her level of maturity. One criterion for classifying prodigies is: a prodigy is a child, typically younger than 18 years old, who is performing at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding...

. Its setting, Ducktown, Tennessee is a small town located in the Appalachian Mountains of south eastern Tennessee along the border with North Carolina. The film was shot in Maury County, Tennessee. This is ironic as there are no mountains in Maury County, Tennessee.

Quentin Tarantino had very little input to this film due to personal issues at the time, but most of his influence can be seen where Daltry's issues with the prized grass come to resolution and the movie draws to an end.
  • Tagline
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    : Proudly spreading his seeds across America.
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