Everyone needs to mark Saturday, Aug. 13, on their calendars. That's when Hollywood will descend on Shelbyville for an event many have been waiting for.

"Our Very Own," a film shot here last year, will have its Tennessee premiere at the Capri Theater on that date. Additional screenings will be held Sunday, Aug. 14.

According to Louise Russell, assistant to writer/director Cameron Watson, they are working on times and events and how ticketing will be handled with more details forthcoming.

"We plan on doing a red carpet press line in front of the Capri for the Saturday evening premiere screening," Russell said.

The movie was conceived by Shelbyville native Watson, and is a semi-autobiographic tale set in 1978 starring Allison Janney, Keith Carradine and Cheryl Hines, along with rising stars Jason Ritter, Autumn Reeser and Hilarie Burton.

In the film, five local teens are excited about the return of another Bedford County native, Sondra Locke, who starred with her then-partner Clint Eastwood in several films of the era, including "Any Which Way But Loose." The teenagers hope to follow the movie star out of Shelbyville, but at the same time, one of the group is facing a personal family crisis.

Last month, the movie premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was well received, according to Watson.

"The word of mouth in Hollywood on this film is very positive," Watson said last month. "The buzz is incredibly high pitched."

Meanwhile, another favorable review of the film has appeared in a major entertainment industry publication -- Variety. The review, written by Robert Koehler, calls the movie, "a sensitive...dramatization of the downside of the American Dream."

Koehler's review states that setting the film in Shelbyville gives the movie "an authentic sense of place" and points out "a stirring performance by Allison Janney leading an impressive cast..."

"What's amazing about Janney's portrayal is that this is only the beginning of what develops into one of the most fully realized female characters in recent American film," Koehler writes. One scene is described as "the stuff of Arthur Miller tragedies" when movers arrive unexpectedly to repossess the dining room set of Janney's family.

"Just as the kids feel stuck in this place, so too do their parents -- a realization that hits Joan like a bittersweet epiphany during a ladies' town meeting with friend Sally (Cheryl Hines)," the review states.

Describing the stage act performed by the kids to grab Locke's attention, Koehler writes it "perfectly captures the sincerity of a young amateur group giving it their all."

"(Jason) Ritter (son of John) has much of his late father's warmth, and his puppy-love interaction with the peppy (Autumn) Reeser quickens the film's pulse," Variety says.

The review also notes that the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration "is quite novel for those who know nothing of the event, as is the appearance of Mary Badham -- Oscar nominated as the young girl in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' -- in her first film role in 39 years."

Watson has described the movie as a family film, with no nudity or violence, but containing some dark themes.

A number of locals are cast as extras in the film, including dance instructor Nancy June Brandon, Scott Cunningham, who is now a New York actor, and Deborah Obenchain. Cunningham and Obenchain were fellow drama students with Watson at Shelbyville Central High School during the time period in which the movie is set. Obenchain's niece, Elizabeth Cole, daughter of The Fly Arts Center Director Janice Cole, has a non-speaking role as Locke.