Jennifer Jason Leigh
Anney Boatwright
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Bastard Out of Carolina is a 1996 American drama film made by Showtime Networks, directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on the 1992 novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith. Jena Malone stars in her debut as a poor, physically abused and sexually molested girl.
A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?
- 97 min
- 220.4K
- Timerider1982
Bastard Out of Carolina: Directed by Anjelica Huston. With Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Glenne Headly, Lyle Lovett. A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture.
- (4.9K)
- Drama
- Anjelica Huston
- 1996-12-15
High school graduate Isaiah coasts on basketball and video games. A year later, jobless and adrift, he faces his single mom's ultimatum to get a life or get out.
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- 2 min
- R
Bastard Out of Carolina. Anney (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a poor single mother from the rural South, struggles to raise her young daughter, Bone (Jena Malone). They seem to find happiness when...
- (9)
- Anjelica Huston
- R
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
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.
A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect? Difficult tale of a poor, struggling South Carolina mother and daughter who each face painful choices with resolve and pride.
