

Cross Creek
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
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- Released
- Budget
- $8M
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- Language
- English
- florida
- writer
- based on memoir or autobiography
- creek
- 1930s
- oranges
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG21 Sept 1983
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalG8 Mar 1984
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival16 May 1983
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Cross Creek was released on 21 September 1983.
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Wuchak
3/27/2019
***Decide what you want to do and then DO IT, come what may*** In 1928, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) in her early 30s moves to a blindly bought orange grove near the hamlet of Cross Creek, in northern Florida, which is located on a strip of land between two large lakes (Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake). There she hopes to find the peace and privacy to launch her writing career. Peter Coyote plays a h…
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