Cross Creek

Cross Creek
by Martin Ritt

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Actor: Alfre Woodard, Dana Hill, Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn
Director: Martin Ritt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-19
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

DVD Reviews of Cross Creek

DVD Review: Entertaining Movie
Summary: 4 Stars

The movie isnt very accurate in terms of Rawlings' life at Cross Creek, but it's good entertainment.

DVD Review: BETTER THAN THE YEARLING MOVIE-WHICH IS REAL GOOD ALSO
Summary: 5 Stars

Mary Steenburgen, playing Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, should have won her own Academy Award for her performance. She also is presented in a 17 minute featurette called Cross Creek: A Look Back with Mary Steenburgen. That is a great extra included on the DVD. Rip Torn, playing a Cross Creek swamp father of a local family, and Alfre Woodard, playing Rawling's live-in housekeeper, both were nominated for best supporting roles. The entire cast makes this a pleasant story to watch.

Rawlings (this a true story) struggles with her writing ability on a backwoods orange farm bought for the seclusion. What she discovers is a group of neighborhood people that she eventually becomes a part of. Because of the Florida bayou move and leaving her husband, the stage is set for some very remarkable stories to be written. Others have mentioned "The Yearling" (1938) which won Rawlings a Pulitzer-Prize. Besides that and Cross Creek (1942) she also wrote South Moon Under, 1933; Golden Apples, 1935; When the Whipperwill, 1940; Jacob's ladder, 1950; The Sojourner, 1953; and Secret River in 1955. Because of this movie I want so much to read "Jacob's Ladder".

Hopefully someone will discover the delights in these other stories by Rawlings and create another movie version. Cross Creek ends with delight and leaving the viewer wanting more. Mary Steenburgen makes you want to visit Florida and Cross Creek for a long vacation and interaction with the folks living there. And of course, while there, to thank Marjorie Keenan Rawlings in person for her stories. The Florida setting is great and the movie is rated PG which also could represent "Pleasantly Grandiose".

Many consider the story to have a theme of "women's independence" but I feel Rawlings shows the struggle in all, men and women, for achievement and success through inner ability and desire. Truly a story for the whole family, just like The Yearling.

DVD Review: In The Life of One Writer!
Summary: 4 Stars

I remember watching, for the first time, in the early '80's, Cross Creek, about a segment in the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, writer, author. I found it quite entertaining, made so by the various characters she lives around in the Florida everglades. It is a warm account of her settling into a simple life far from the world she came from as a newspaper reporter. I love watching true life stories of writers, and it took me a while to find this DVD.

DVD Review: Cross Creek - A Great Film
Summary: 4 Stars

Cross Creek is one of my three top favorite films of all time. Mary Steenburgen and Rip Torn are topnotch in this one! It's a real family film that can be enjoyed by everyone! If you enjoyed "The Yearling", you'll love "Cross Creek"!

DVD Review: A TRUE CLASSIC
Summary: 5 Stars

A must see.I just happened to see this movie on tv years ago.I ordered the dvd watched it with my girlfriend and we both really enjoyed it.

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