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Barn Burning (1980)
Directed by Peter Werner
Drama, TV Movie · 41m
Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adapted by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.
Cast
Tommy Lee Jones
Ab Snopes
Carolyn Coates
Aunt
Crew
- Director
- Peter Werner
- Director of Photography
- Peter Sova
- Editor
- Jay Freund
- Producer
- Calvin Skaggs
Details
- Release date
- 1980-03-17
- Runtime
- 41m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Learning in Focus