Winston-Salem's Morrison makes his debut in Junebug

Here's a story about the Triad NC-oriented film Junebug, which just so happens to be a part of the upcoming Academy Awards; supporting actress Amy Adams is nominated for her role as Ashley. The screenwriter, Angus MacLachlan, and the director, Phil Morrison, are both Winston-Salem natives; MacLachlan, a NCSA graduate, still lives here. It was shot almost entirely in the Forsyth/Surry/Stokes county area.

NEW YORK: - Junebug was one of 2005's most critically acclaimed films. Director Phil Morrison and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan returned to their rural hometown near Winston-Salem, N.C., and skillfully examined universal themes. The result is a funny, bittersweet, thoughtfully presented story.
The Associated Press spoke with Morrison about dysfunction, North and South and Meet Me In St. Louis.
AP: The film is filled with great lines like 'God loves you just the way you are, but too much to let you stay that way.'
Morrison: Well, there's a story behind that line. That line wasn't in the script. There's this really great church in Winston-Salem, where we shot the movie and is my hometown, called Green Street Methodist church. Kelly Carpenter, the minister there, said that line a couple of weeks before we started shooting. Amy Adams and I were there at that service. When he said that everybody laughed and we decided Ashley had to say that in the movie somewhere. So he gets credit for that line.