Cross Creek

Name: Cross Creek
Director: Martin Ritt
Genre: Biography, Drama
Cast: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard

Feature Film, Color 1983, 2h

Biography, Drama

Director Martin Ritt

Starring Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard, Joanna Miles, Ike Eisenman, Cary Guffey, Toni Hudson, Bo Rucker, Jay O. Sanders, Malcolm McDowell

The true story of the novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who retreated in 1928 to an isolated plantation in order to write. Leaving behind her comfortable New York city life - and her marriage - she faced the backwoods alone. Her experiences in the swampy scrub country and the lives of her rustic neighbors became the subjects of her books and in the land and the people she found inspiration and love.