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Although my recollection of the narrative is hazy at best, the main protagonist is a poor young boy who lives in the city (New York/Boston?) with his family, trying to cope with his unhappy childhood....

I'm looking for the name of a movie about a lonely guy falling in love with a woman's dead body he find. This guy I believed is a redneck and mental handicap. He finds a woman who had died from a car accident...