Vernon, Florida

Vernon, Florida is a 1981 documentary film produced and directed by Errol Morris profiling various eccentric residents living within the town of Vernon, Florida. Originally titled Nub City, this follow-up to Gates of Heaven was initially focused on residents of the Southern town who cut off their own limbs as a way to collect insurance money. After Morris' life was threatened by the subjects of the film, he re-worked Nub City into Vernon, Florida.

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Vernon, Florida

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:02:22

Reality.

:02:24

You mean, this is the real world?

:02:29

I never thought of that.

:02:34

My mother and I,
we had a house in Chicago.

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We figured...

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we'd get out of there, you know,
while the getting's good.

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And so, then when I got to Vernon...

:02:45

I called up these real estate people.
They sent me their phone number.

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So then I see the picture.

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The property was $2,200.
Of course, it was cheap.

:02:57

They claim it was too much.

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Well, it wasn't too good.
It wasn't a castle...

:03:04

but it was a house. Five lots.

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So, okay, bought it.

:03:11

Had a mortgage for four years, paid off...

:03:14

so I don't have to pay no rent, see?
No taxes.

:03:19

Old age?

:03:21

No taxes.

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