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Man from Plains
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jonathan Demme
Produced by	Neda Armian
Written by	Jonathan Demme
Starring	Jimmy Carter Rosalynn Carter
Music by	Alejandro Escovedo
Cinematography	Declan Quinn
Editing by	Kate Amend
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release date(s)	2007
Running time	120 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	$108,807^[1]

Man from Plains (originally titled "He Comes in Peace") is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Jonathan Demme, which chronicles former President Jimmy Carter's book tour across America to publicize his new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.^[2]^[3]^[4] For the book promotion, Carter grants interviews to selected newspapers, magazines, and television shows. Some of these interviews include:

Contents

1 Festival screenings
2 Box office
3 Notes
4 External links

Festival screenings

Man From Plains debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2007.^[5] The film won 3 awards at the 2007 Venice Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize, EIUC Award and Biografilm Award.

Box office

The film grossed $108,807.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains The Numbers - Movie Box Office Data, Film Stars, Idle Speculation, accessed May 1, 2011.
^ Chris Tilly, "Demme 'Comes in Peace'," The Time Out Movie Blog: This Week's Top Stories from the Movie World (TOMB), Time Out London December 5, 2006, accessed January 23, 2007.
^ Borys Kitt and Nicole Sperling, "Demme Helms Docu on Carter for Participant", The Hollywood Reporter December 6, 2006, accessed May 3, 2007.
^ Nick Paumgarten, "Jimmy Carter Aloft", The New Yorker December 11, 2006, accessed May 3, 2007.
^ "Man from Plains Jonathan Demme", Toronto International Film Festival official website "film schedules", accessed September 10, 2007.

External links

v · d · eFilms directed by Jonathan Demme

1970s	Caged Heat (1974) • Crazy Mama (1975) • Fighting Mad (1976) • Handle with Care (1977) • Last Embrace (1979)

1980s	Melvin and Howard (1980) • Who Am I This Time? (1982) • Swing Shift (1984) • Stop Making Sense (1984) • Something Wild (1986) • Swimming to Cambodia (1987) • Married to the Mob (1988)

1990s	The Silence of the Lambs (1991) • Cousin Bobby (1992) • Philadelphia (1993) • Storefront Hitchcock (1998) • Beloved (1998)

2000s	The Truth About Charlie (2002) • The Agronomist (2004) • The Manchurian Candidate (2004) • Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006) • Man from Plains (2007) • Rachel Getting Married (2008) · Neil Young Trunk Show (2009)

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