Movies

October, 1989

Set in 1957, when civil rights activists were beginning to shake things up in the Deep South, The Heart of Dixie (Orion) replays history as it might have seemed to three comely Alabama coeds. They're all white, with impeccably proper drawls, and appear to have the intellectual depth of Dixie cups. Delia June (Virginia Madsen) wants to get pinned and marry well; Aiken (Phoebe Cates) wants to go to Noo Yawk; and Maggie (Ally Sheedy), the college journalist, feels serious thoughts churning in her p...