Cross Creek 1983  PG, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard, Joanna Miles, Ike Eisenmann, Jay O. Sanders, Malcolm McDowell, Cary Guffey, Toni Hudson, Bo Rucker, John Hammond, Tommy Alford, C.T. Wakefield
The Florida backwoods home of "The Yearling" author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) and her life prior to publishing her first novel are the basis for this story. Rawlings leaves her husband and moves to a Florida orange grove where she begins life anew hoping to find needed peace to write her story. Among her new-found friends are her servant Geechee (Alfre Woodard), her lover Norton (Peter Coyote), and father and daughter Marsh and Ellie Turner (Rip Torn and Dana Hill)–all of whom give her the inspiration to write her novel. The film received four Academy Award nominations including Torn for Best Supporting Actor and Woodard for Best Supporting Actress.
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South Bronx Heroes 1985  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Mystery
aka: Revenge of the Innocents
Director: William Szarka
Cast: Brendan Ward, Melissa Esposito, Mario Van Peebles, Megan Van Peebles, Martin Zurla, Barry Lynch, Dan Lauria, Bo Rucker, Sean Ward, Jordan Abeles, Claude Vincent, Alysson Chiodi, Trujillo, John Szarka, Thomas Anderson
As youngsters, Paul and Michelle ( Brendan Ward and Melissa Esposito) had run away from a cruel foster father, taking with them evidence of sexual abuse and the murder of a fellow foster child. Hiding out in the streets of the Bronx, they run across another pair of siblings–Tony and Christy (Mario and Megan Van Peebles). Tony, recently out of a Mexican jail, decides that revenge is the appropriate course of action when he sees the evidence.
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| 1. Cross Creek (1983)
2. South Bronx Heroes (1985)
aka: Revenge of the Innocents
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