Jennifer Jason Leigh
Anney Boatwright
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Anney, a poor single mother from the rural South, struggles to raise her young daughter Bone. They seem to find happiness when Anney marries a kind man named Lyle who treats Bone like his own child. But after Lyle is killed in a car accident, Anney marries hotheaded Glen, who abuses Bone physically and sexually and tears the once tightly-knot ...
Over the course of a few years, Anney allows herself to trust him and let him be a father to her daughters. When Anney gets pregnant with Glen's child soon after they are engaged, Glen is elated. But, as she's giving birth, Glen molests Bone in the car in the hospital parking lot. Anney's child is stillborn, and she can't have any more children.
Dec 15, 1996 · Set in South Carolina in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Bastard Out Of Carolina touches on many aspects of life, family, and hardship amidst the poor white of the South. TNT owner Ted Turner refused to air the film, ostensibly because of its difficult subject matter, but the film goes out of its way to handle its material with as little ...
Brief Synopsis. Movie based on the best-selling novel of the same title, set in the 1950s, about a girl named Bone and her horrible childhood with an abusive stepfather and a mother who refuses to acknowledge any wrong-doing.
- Anjelica Huston
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
Ruth Anne Boatwright (nicknamed "Bone") is the narrator and protagonist of the novel, which chronicles her life from her birth to just before her thirteenth birthday. She is an intelligent girl, but life's constant disappointments have filled her with intensity and anger. She deeply resents the middle and upper class people who judge and ...
Bastard out of Carolina. "The day I was born started off bad, and it only got worse." A 1996 drama film directed by Anjelica Huston, adapted from the 1992 novel of the same name by Dorothy Allison. Set in 1950s rural South Carolina, the story centers around Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright ( Jena Malone) and her mother, Anney ( Jennifer Jason Leigh ...
Dec 15, 1996 · A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance. Anjelica Huston. Director. Anne Meredith.
