Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) on Netflix

A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?

Difficult tale of a poor, struggling South Carolina mother and daughter who each face painful choices with resolve and pride. Tired Anney and her daughter Bone grow both closer and farther apart as Anney sees Glen as her last chance despite his mistreatment of Bone.

—Lew Jacobs <titus@idirect.com>

Anney, a poor single mother from the rural South, struggles to raise her young daughter Bone. They seem to find happiness when Anney marries a kind man named Lyle who treats Bone like his own child. But after Lyle is killed in a car accident, Anney marries hotheaded Glen, who abuses Bone physically and sexually and tears the once tightly-knot family apart.

—Jwelch5742