USA. Rated G. 118 minutes.

The son of a sharecropper, Pearl Fryar works in a canning factory in a small, poor South Carolina town where he and his wife are denied a house in an all-white neighborhood because "black people don't keep up their yards." So he and Metra acquire a house and three acres in a black neighborhood and Pearl begins his garden. He plants bushes and trees and starts to grow and trim and shape them. Without training or even drawings, he becomes an amazing sculptor, putting in hours in the evening after work, creating an ongoing, never ending, expanding gallery of art. Now it's Garden of the Month awards, national media attention, lectures to college art classes, imitations, exhibitions on museum lawns, busloads of tourists, and a Hollywood movie ('Edward Scissorhands') that his art inspired. In his late 60s, he is modest, vigorous, and himself such a well-sculpted figure that there are visitors checking out the man as well as his art.

Now playing at the Strand Theatre in Rockland.

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