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Release Date: 1996

Cast: Glenne Headly, Pat Hingle, Susan Traylor, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Laura Dern, Ron Eldard, Dermot Mulroney, Christina Ricci, Jena Malone, Lyle Lovett, Diana Scarwid, Michael Rooker ...MORE

Cast: Glenne Headly, Pat Hingle, Susan Traylor, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Laura Dern, Ron Eldard, Dermot Mulroney, Christina Ricci, Jena Malone, Lyle Lovett, Diana Scarwid, Michael Rooker, Grace Zabriskie ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Family Drama, Television movie, Film adaptation

Bastard Out of Carolina is a 1996 film made by Showtime Networks, directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on a novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith. Jena Malone stars as a poor, physically abused and sexually molested girl. In 1997, the theatrical and video releases of the film were banned by Canada's Maritime Film Classification Board. The video was eventually granted release upon appeal. It won the Emmy Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special (Linda Lowy) and was nominated Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special (Anjelica Huston),... MORE

Bastard Out of Carolina is a 1996 film made by Showtime Networks, directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on a novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith. Jena Malone stars as a poor, physically abused and sexually molested girl. In 1997, the theatrical and video releases of the film were banned by Canada's Maritime Film Classification Board. The video was eventually granted release upon appeal. It won the Emmy Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special (Linda Lowy) and was nominated Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special (Anjelica Huston), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special (Glenne Headly), and Outstanding Made for Television Movie (Amanda DiGiulio, Gary Hoffman). It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. In the 1950s rural South Carolina, pregnant, 15 year-old Anney Boatwright is asleep in the backseat of her brother-in-law, Travis’, Chevy when the car crashes into a pickup truck. She flies through the windshield and remains unconscious when she gives birth to her daughter whom her family names Ruth (after her sister) and Anne (after herself). However the baby is known LESS