Cross Creek (1983) on Netflix
PG19832h 7mBiographyDramaRomance
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings leaves her husband for an orange grove she has bought at Cross Creek, Florida. Neighbors Marsh Turner and Geechee come into her life while the grove languishes.
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Plot summary
In 1928, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings tells her husband that a publisher has rejected her book, that she is leaving him, and that she is bound for the orange grove she has bought at Cross Creek, Florida. She drives there alone, and her car gives out in the nearest town, where Norton Baskin takes her the last stretch to a run-down cabin and an overgrown grove. She decides to stay and begins fixing the place up. Geechee offers to work for her for little pay, Marsh Turner and his daughter Ellie bring their pet fawn Flag around, and editors and local residents bother her. The grove does poorly, and she writes another novel hoping to sell it.
Cast
- Bo Ruckeras Leroy
- John Hammondas Tim
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cross Creek (1983)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In 1943 Zelma Gaison, a social worker and friend of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, sued her for $100,000 over the book Cross Creek, saying it made her look like a 'hussy' who 'cursed'; the jury ruled against Rawlings but awarded Gaison only $1.00.
- Ted Danson auditioned for the role that went to Peter Coyote in Cross Creek; it was the first time he met Mary Steenburgen, whom he later married.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's real husband, hotel proprietor Norton Baskin, who is played by Peter Coyote in the film, visited the location several times and had a cameo as the elderly man who directs Marjorie to his own hotel.
- The character based on Jody in The Yearling was a girl in real life, and the filmmakers planned to keep Jody a boy until they saw Dana Hill in Shoot the Moon and changed the character to a girl.
- The film shows Rawlings leaving her husband to write alone in Florida, but the couple actually grew oranges in the state for four years before the marriage broke up, and Norton Baskin did not meet her when her car broke down.
- Cross Creek was filmed at Ocala, Florida, near the real Marjorie Rawlings's house, now a state museum, where the company had to deal with mosquitos, snakes, alligators and rain.
