Cross Creek Summary, Review, Cast & Crew

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Cross Creek
Running Time: 122 min.
Box Office: / Domestic gross: $200,000
Produced By: / Thorn EMI / Universal

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,... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew:
Mary Steenburgen (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
Rip Torn (Marsh Turner)
Peter Coyote (Norton Baskin)
Dana Hill (Ellie Turner)
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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 Souther ... Continue >>