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Cross Creek

Mary Steenburgen stars in this adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s classic novel about her experiences living in rural Florida during the 1920s and 1930s. Mixing together elements of Cross Creek and The Yearling, director Martin Ritt creates a glowing period piece that finds the essence of both books. In the film, Mrs. Rawlings (Steenburgen), a New Yorker, buys an orange grove in Florida for the purpose of going there to write the gothic romance she can’t seem to finish in the city.