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Overview
This documentary follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor Appalachia. Matriarch Iree has given birth to 13 children, but only two have left to seek better lives in Ohio while the rest have married and started their own impoverished families near home. Uneducated and unskilled, all are unemployed, and domestic violence and alcoholism pose serious problems. The filmmakers explore the family's relationships through interviews and footage of their daily lives.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 26, 1999
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Moxie Firecracker Films,Moxie Films
- Director
- Rory Kennedy
- Writer
- Mark Bailey
- Producer
- Sheila Nevins
- Music
- Bill Frisell
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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