Cross Creek (1983)
- Starring:
- Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, (more)
- Director(s):
- Martin Ritt
- Category:
- 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, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 120 mins
Complete Cast:
- Mary Steenburgen - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Peter Coyote - Norton Baskin
- Alfre Woodard - Geechee
- Ike Eisenmann - Paul
- Toni Hudson - Tim's Wife
- Jay O. Sanders - Charles Rawlings
- Malcolm McDowell - Max Perkins
- Tommy Alford - Postal Clerk
- Rip Torn - Marsh Turner
- Dana Hill - Ellie Turner
- Joanna Miles - Mrs. Turner
- Cary Guffey - Floyd Turner
- Bo Rucker - Leroy
- John Hammond - Tim
- Keith Michell - Preston Turner
- C.T. Wakefield - Sheriff
- Director(s):
- Martin Ritt
- Writer(s):
- Dalene Young
- Producer(s):
- Terry Nelson, Robert B. Radnitz
- Categories:
- Drama
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