BLACK HILLS POSTER AND THE MOVIE: NEBRASKA

In the Oscar nominated movie "Nebraska" Bruce Dern's character is traveling from Billings, MT, "to get his million dollars" magazine sweepstakes award in Phoenix.  His driving son talks him into a side trip to see Mt. Rushmore, where Dern criticizes the sculptures for not being "finished and having not being dressed."  It is too bad they weren't holding those bluegrass instruments as shown in the bluegrass festival poster below. BTW, having grown up in Billings I loved the opening scenes of driving down Montana Avenue along the RR tracks and seeing Dern being picked up on the highway entrance by Dennis McCave,  a local retired sheriff's captain, playing a deputy in the movie. It is unusual for a local extra to be given a speaking line and then listed as one of the actors in a movie, but there was McCave's name right up there with Bruce Dern and the rest of the cast. He had once been a patrolling deputy, but for many years he was the head jailer of the Yellowstone County Detention Center. The scenes of Dern's house were actually shot in Laurel although they claimed it was Billings. The movie was worth watching for those scenes alone to me. I never go to movie theaters any more and  waited until I could get it on Blu-ray for a buck fifty rental from Redbox.