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9 August 1985 (Sweden) moreTagline:
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning. moreAwards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 nominations moreUser Comments:
Rawlings, The Early Years moreUS TV Schedule:
| Fri. Dec. 5 | 6:15 AM | SHOW | |||
| Wed. Dec. 10 | 7:55 AM | SHOW |
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Mary Steenburgen | ... | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
 | Rip Torn | ... | Marsh Turner |
 | Peter Coyote | ... | Norton Baskin |
 | Dana Hill | ... | Ellie Turner |
 | Alfre Woodard | ... | Geechee |
 | Joanna Miles | ... | Mrs. Turner |
 | Ike Eisenmann | ... | Paul |
| Cary Guffey | ... | Floyd Turner |
| Toni Hudson | ... | Tim's Wife |
| Bo Rucker | ... | Leroy |
 | Jay O. Sanders | ... | Charles Rawlings |
| John Hammond | ... | Tim |
| Tommy Alford | ... | Postal Clerk |
| Norton Baskin | ... | Man in the Rocking Chair |
 | Terrence Gehr | ... | Store Keeper |
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Cameo: [Norton Baskin]giving directions to Rawlings. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: [voiceover] My journey to maturity began in New York, in 1928. I was married to Charles Rawlings, the newspaper man and yachting enthusiast. I had been trying to write stories that I thought would be most likely to sell - gothic romances were extremely popular - and I had written dozens. I was desperate to express myself. Even as a child I'd been consumed with the desire to be a writer.
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Film fans best know the work of Marjorie Kiniston Rawlings through the adaption of her best known work The Yearling and the later filming of an original story for the screen in The Sun Comes Up. Cross Creek is our opportunity to look inside the mind and character of the woman who was the creator of these classics.
As played beautifully by Mary Steenburgen, we meet Rawlings during the Twenties as a woman with a passion to go to the land and a burning desire to write. She's been submitting potboiler romance novels to publishers who keep telling her to reach for her soul in her writings.
Steenburgen divorces her husband and moves to some Florida swamp land which she by dint of her own hard work and the help of neighbors, she turns into a decent patch for an orange grove. One of them, storekeeper Peter Coyote, evinces more than a neighborly interest.
It's her letters from her town of Cross Creek that excite Steenburgen's potential publisher, Malcolm McDowell, the simple lives and dignity of her neighbors with all their flaws. Especially neighbor Rip Torn and his family, they become the models for the characters in The Yearling.
Cross Creek earned Academy Award nominations for Rip Torn as Best Supporting Actor and Alfre Woodard playing a black woman who Steenburgen takes in and works for her. Cross Creek also got nominations for Best Music Score and Costume Design. Why Mary Steenburgen wasn't nominated for Best Actress is a mystery.
One really ought to see Cross Creek back to back with The Sun Comes Up which was Rawlings original work for the screen and was Jeanette MacDonald's last film. Seeing Cross Creek puts a lot of The Sun Comes Up in context with MacDonald's character and with how Rawlings is interpreted by Steenburgen. Both films will take on a new dimension if anyone has not seen the other.
Cross Creek is one excellent piece of film making about the genesis of a great American writer.