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Directed by:
Martin Ritt
Written by:
Dalene Young, from the memoir of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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| Released: |
1983 |
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DRAMA
BIOPIC
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
122 |
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Biopic of a writer (Mary Steenburgen) who leaves her husband in 1928 and goes off to write in the Everglades. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| Stodgy, highly fictionalised biopic, memorable for Mary Steenburgen's luminous performance. Martin Ritt overdoes the nature photography and weighs the whole thing down with heavy-handedness, but the performances shine through. Leonard Rosenman's score was Oscar-nominated. | | MIXED | | The landscapes are attractive, but much too lushly filmed with lyrical inserts in which the wonders of the bayou are contemplated. Good performances fail to mask the fact that the characters are stereotyped from start to finish. | | | | (Tom Milne, Monthly Film Bulletin) | | ANTI | | Everything is lighted to look holy, and when the score isn't shimmering and burnishing, nature is twittering. | | | | (New Yorker) | | Altogether too typical of its producer and director - and too slow - to hold much surprise or interest. | | | | (Halliwell's Film Guide, 2004) |
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, Rip Torn 
, Peter Coyote
