Bastard Out of Carolina (film)
Bastard out of Carolina is a 1996 film made by Showtime Networks, directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on a novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith. Jena Malone stars as a poor, physically abused and sexually molested girl.
Ruth Anne, nicknamed Bone, is a young girl growing up in Greenville, South Carolina. Born out of wedlock to Anney, Bone lives with her mother and their extended family in a poor part of town. Anney loves Bone, but is still very much a child herself, tired out from working and needy for attention and adoration. Bone and Anney nearly always have to face the shame of the ILLEGITIMATE stamp on Bones birth certificate. Later, when the county courthouse burns down, Anney is happy that a copy of Bones birth certificate no longer exists, much less has ILLEGITIMATE stamped on it.After her kind, hardworking first husband, the father of Bones halfsister, is killed in an automobile accident, Anney remarries a man named Glen, who seems attentive until Anneys and Glens baby dies at birth. Glen first sexually assaults Bone, while waiting in the car for the birth of his child. Frustrated by the loss of his eagerlyanticipated son, Anneys inability to have more children, and his own inability to manage his temper and maintain steady employment, Glen begins to physically and sexually abuse Bone regularly in the bathroom. Anney is saddened by her new husbands behavior towards her child, but does not leave him. ........
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