A Good Baby

The spirit of Flannery O'Connor hangs heavy over this grim tale of good and evil in the backwoods of North Carolina, but the film is actually an adaptation of a novel by Canadian writer Leon Rooke. Early one morning, while hunting squirrels in the misty green hills of rural North Carolina, Raymond Toker, the youngest member of the God-forsaken Toker clan #151; and the only one in the family who's both alive and out of jail — stumbles across a newborn baby, swaddled in a bloody shirt and left to die under a laurel bush. Raymond takes the infant back to town, but the local women have enough troubles — and kids — of their own. Only Josephine Priddy (Cara Seymour), a f...