Cross Creek

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Cross Creek

PG

1983

2h 2m

Biography

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In the late 1920s, columnist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) moved to Cross Creek, Fla., to dedicate herself to writing a serious novel. Despite her husband's eventual departure, the initial suspicion of the locals about her work, and the challenge of finding a worthy subject to devote herself to, Marjorie persists in her dream. With the inspiration of kindly Marsh Turner (Rip Torn) and his daughter, Ellie (Dana Hill), Marjorie discovers the perfect theme for her novel.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

09/13/2023

It’s a rampaging role, but Torn doesn’t seem to be afraid of anything, and he gives his character a pleasure in performance -- something that American actors rarely do.

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

05/11/2021

Like any good Hollywood suffering artist [she] goes and walks through a thunderstorm for 10 minutes and then conies in. dripping wet, to type out her first masterpiece.

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Derek Malcolm

Guardian

05/10/2021

Ritt is an able and honourable film-maker but when his heart is on his sleeve like this, the result tends to be the kind of liberal Hollywood movie that looks and tastes like fudge.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

11/16/2024

3/4

Pleasing and picturesque.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

05/10/2021

The movie is well acted but director Martin Ritt used to get more roughage into his movies than he has been doing recently.

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Mary S

04/29/2024

Good view of backwoods Florida.

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Steve M

02/06/2023

An interesting slice of life from just after the depression. A failed woman writer divorces her husband and moves to rural Florida to write her novels. She meets people that are very different from her northern upbringing and writes about them.

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steve d

07/14/2020

The performances are really good the rest is not.

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05/20/2019

Great film about writing, art, and life.

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04/26/2016

Steenburgen saves this tiring drama about a writer and her days on an orange grove.

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10/24/2015

Cross Creek is a simple but intriguing and inspirational tale of a woman's journey to self discovery with two excellent supporting peroformances (torn and woodard), enchanting visuals and playful score

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In the late 1920s, columnist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) moved to Cross Creek, Fla., to dedicate herself to writing a serious novel. Despite her husband's eventual departure, the initial suspicion of the locals about her work, and the challenge of finding a worthy subject to devote herself to, Marjorie persists in her dream. With the inspiration of kindly Marsh Turner (Rip Torn) and his daughter, Ellie (Dana Hill), Marjorie discovers the perfect theme for her novel.

Director: Martin Ritt
Producer: Robert B. Radnitz
Screenwriter: Dalene Young
Distributor: Associated Film Distribution
Production Co: Universal/Universal Int
Rating: PG
Genre: Biography
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 21, 1983, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 10, 2009
Runtime: 2h 2m

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