Cross Creek Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Ritt
Genres: Drama
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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 orange grove to concentrate on her writing. Rawlings buys a run-down house covered with cobwebs that she restores with quick dispatch. In these desolate surroundings, Rawlings pauses in her housecleaning to listen reflectively to the otherworldly noises of the swamp. But suddenly out of this loneliness, people emerge. There is Geechee (Alfre_Woodard), Rawlings' devoted servant; Marsh Turner (Rip_Torn), a liquor-guzzling swamp rat; Floyd Turner (Cary_Guffey), a cute harmonica-playing boy; and Ellie Turner (Dana_Hill), a little girl whose fawn becomes the basis of Rawlings' Yearling book. Rawlings becomes involved with Norton Baskin (Peter_Coyote), the owner of the local hotel, and, as she settles into life on the bayou and her friendship with Norton and Geechee, she is inspired to begin writing. Paul Brenner, Rovi
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