The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
- 6.6
- 1983
- Released
- 2h 7m
Mary Steenburgen
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Rip Torn
Marsh Turner
Peter Coyote
Norton Baskin
Dana Hill
Ellie Turner
Alfre Woodard
Geechee
Joanna Miles
Mrs. Turner
Ike Eisenmann
Paul
Toni Hudson
Tim's Wife
Cary Guffey
Floyd Turner
Bo Rucker
Leroy
Jay O. Sanders
Charles RawlingsJohn Hammond
TimTommy Alford
Postal ClerkNorton Baskin
Man in the Rocking ChairTerrence Gehr
Store KeeperKeith Michel
Preston TurnerNora Rogers
Mary TurnerKenneth V. Vickery
MinisterC.T. Wakefield
Sheriff
Malcolm McDowell
Max PerkinsReleased
en
$8,000,000.00
- #florida
- #writer
- #based on memoir or autobiography
- #creek
- #1930s
- #oranges
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***Decide what you want to do and then DO IT, come what may*** In 1928, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) in her early 30s moves to a blindly bought orange grove near the hamlet of Cross Creek, in northern Florida, which is located on a strip of land between two large lakes (Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake). There she hopes to find the peace and privacy to launch her writing career. Pe