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Every bit of ground was drenched in sunlight and steaming in the heat, except for the living room that harbored the only wild population of Chittenango ovate amber snails in the world.

That didn’t save “Sea of Trees” from the carnage, but Mr. McConaughey’s response at a news conference was characteristically sanguine: “Anyone has as much right to boo as they do to ovate.”

They brought the scent of the Sahara and Christmas, and yanked the slender, ovate leaves down from the frangipani and the needlelike leaves from the whistling pines, covering everything in a film of brown.

“Anyone has as much right to boo as they do to ovate,” he said.

Heckles and boos were heard at Friday's press screening, but McConaughey said, "People have as much right to boo as to ovate."