Breaking News
in Yuba County
After neglected wife Sue Buttons (Allison
Janney) buries the body of her banker
husband Karl (Matthew Modine), who
suffered a fatal heart attack after being
caught cheating on her, she becomes a
household name by publicly pretending that
her husband is simply missing.
FIVE FACTS:
- In this film, Mila Kunis plays Nancy, a role
that originally went to Laura Dern. - Director Tate Taylor is very fond of the
Mississippi city of Natchez – hence why he
decided to make it a stand-in for Yuba County
in the movie. - Ellen Barkin is also in the cast, having
previously co-starred with Janney in the 1999
film Drop Dead Gorgeous. - Taylor previously directed Janney in 2011’s
The Help, to which Breaking News in Yuba
County has been likened. - Breaking News in Yuba County has
garnered generally negative reviews, with The
New York Times’ Glenn Kenny even branding
it an “amoral, repellent bag of sick”.