Overview
Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adapted by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 17, 1980
- Original language
- English
- Production
- Learning in Focus
- Cast
- Tom Royals,Jennie Hughes,Jean Pettigrew,Simpson Hemphill,Michael Riney,Al Scott,Julie Kaye Fanton,Henry Fonda,Jimmy Faulkner,James Franksand 5 more
- Director
- Peter Werner
- Writer
- William Faulkner,Horton Foote
- Producer
- Calvin Skaggs,Robert Geller
- Cinematography
- Peter Sova
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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