Cross Creek

Drama, Romance · 1983PG

The true story of novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who retreated in 1928 to an isolated citrus grove 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.

Starring

Mary Steenburgen, John A. Alonzo, Rip Torn, Leonard Rosenman, Peter Coyote, Sidney Levin, Caro Jones, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard, Martin Ritt

Director

Martin Ritt