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Cross Creek

1983, Movie, PG, 127 mins

Cross Creek: Review

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's memoirs of a sojourn in the Florida backwoods during the 1930s provide the loose basis of this film. Mary Steenburgen plays the author of The Yearling, who retreats to the wilderness to observe the locals and renew herself creatively. Unfortunately, it's all very pretty and pasteurized, though Rip Torn does a decent job as redneck Marsh Turner. Steenburgen's then real-life husband, Malcolm McDowell, is good as famed book editor Maxwell Perkins in a... read more leave a comment

Cross Creek: Cast & Details

Year: 1983
Rated PG

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Mary Steenburgen: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Rip Torn: Marsh Turner
Peter Coyote: Norton Baskin
Dana Hill: Ellie Turner
Alfre Woodard: Geechee
Joanna Miles: Mrs. Turner

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