Cast: Sally Field (Edna Spalding), John Malkovich (Mr. Will, Blind boarder), Danny Glover (Moze, black man)
Dir. : Robert Benton ("Kramer vs Kramer")
Netflix Summary:
| "Sally Field won her second Best Actress Oscar as a young widow living in Depression-era Waxahachie, Texas, who's determined to eke out a hardscrabble existence farming cotton on her land. Danny Glover and John Malkovich (playing a blind man) are excellent as hired hands who try to help her make a go of it. Director Robert Benton also won an Oscar for his bittersweet screenplay." IMDB Summary: "Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotten to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind border, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortage payment on time." |
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