CROSS CREEK

Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote

Universal Pictures; Directed by Martin Ritt

Rated PG; 127 minutes; 1983

A lyrical, elegant, and truthful film about Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnen Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen). CROSS CREEK reveals the rough and tough edges of the liberated author who wrote The Yearling, Jacob's Ladder, and Cross Creek.