The Southerner (1945)
- Directed by
- Jean Renoir
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 69 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A poor family tries to start a cotton farm in Texas in the 1940s. They face constant challenges from weather, illness, and hunger.
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What happens
The Southerner is a 1945 American drama film directed by Jean Renoir and based on the 1941 novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Director (the only Oscar nomination Renoir received), Original Music Score, and Sound. Renoir was named Best Director by the National Board of Review, which also named the film the third best of 1945. The film portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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