Cross Creek
Summary:
Director Martin Ritt's bucolic rural environments of Norma Rae, Conrack, and Sounder, are re-visited once again in Cross Creek, based on author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' memoirs of her times on a remote Florida bayou. Mary Steenburgen plays Rawlings, author of -The Yearling, who, in 1928, makes the abrupt decision to leave her husband and move to an isolated ora... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Mary Steenburgen - (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
Rip Torn - (Marsh Turner)
Peter Coyote - (Norton Baskin)
Dana Hill - (Ellie Turner)
Alfre Woodard - (Geechee)
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Review:
Cross Creek starts out like it might be some kind of melodramatic, sub-Hallmark Hall of Fame staging of The Great Gatsby. But as it gets its footing in the unstable terrain of the Florida swamps, it starts to approach more of an earthy Southern epic -- something similar in scope to the Elizabethan costume dramas the heroine (Mary Steenb... Continue >>
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