Synopsis
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) is an American drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Anjelica Huston in her feature directorial debut. The film is adapted from Dorothy Allison's semi-autobiographical novel about a childhood in the rural South — not the romanticised kind.
Young Bone grows up with her mother Anney, who marries Glen hoping for a way out of poverty. Glen turns his anger on his stepdaughter. Anney, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, finds ways to keep not confronting what she already knows. Jenna Malone carries Bone with quiet precision; Christina Ricci, Glenn Headly, and Laura Dern fill out the cast. There is no score telling you how to feel.
The Lifetime network passed on the film for being too difficult; Showtime bought it instead. Huston offers no resolution that tidies things up. This is a film about what a child absorbs when the adults around her are supposed to be protection. Stream Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) online on iFILM.
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