Cross Creek (film)

Cross Creek
Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold
Directed byMartin Ritt
Screenplay byDalene Young
Based onCross Creek
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Produced byRobert B. Radnitz
Martin Ritt
Terence Nelson
StarringMary Steenburgen
Rip Torn
Peter Coyote
Alfre Woodard
Dana Hill
CinematographyJohn A. Alonzo
Edited bySidney Levin
Music byLeonard Rosenman
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Associated Film Distribution Corporation
Release dates
  • May 1983 (1983-05) (Cannes)
  • September 21, 1983 (1983-09-21) (United States)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million[1]

Cross Creek is a 1983 American biographical drama romance film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based in part on Rawlings's 1942 memoir Cross Creek.

  1. ^ ALLIGATORS WEREN'T THE ONLY OBSTACLES TO 'CROSS CREEK' Farber, Stephen. New York Times 18 Sep 1983: A.15.