Barn Burning
by Peter Werner
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Actor: Carolyn Coates, Diane Kagan, Michael Riney, Shawn Whittington, Tommy Lee JonesDirector: Peter Werner
Brand: Monterey Home Video
Cinematographer: Peter Sova
Editor: Jay Freund
Producer: Calvin Skaggs
Producer: Ken Golden
Producer: Robert Geller
Writer: Horton Foote
Writer: William Faulkner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 41 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Monterey Video
Movie Reviews of Barn Burning
Movie Review: Great acting in a moving story about revengeful acts of violence and family loyalty
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1980 short made-for-TV film might be small in size but it sure is big on impact. It was adapted from a short story by William Faulkner and takes place in Mississippi, when the Civil was still a living memory and family loyalty was unquestioned. Tommy Lee Jones, in an outstanding performance is cast as the father in a troubled family which has had to move many times because of his propensity for acts of revengeful violence. When the film opens he is on trial in a country store for burning the barn of a neighbor because of some disagreement regarding a hog. His teenage son, brilliantly played by Shawn Whitting is called to the witness stand but before he can be questioned, the judge refuses to intimidate the boy and simply rules that Tommy Lee Jones and his family must leave town.
The film really gets into the time and the place. The wagon is rickety, the family is weary and their poverty is obvious. They are now to become sharecroppers in another area and, when they arrive at their new home, the father and son go to visit the rich man they will be working for. The story then gets more complex as Tommy Lee Jones makes predicable choices. How it all turns out is the stuff of high drama. Mostly, questions are raised about family loyalty and moral questions of right and wrong. I was completely enhanced by the story, the fine acting, and the inevitable outcome. When it ended it left me with an echo and inspired me to read some more of Faulkner which I had dismissed in the past.
Summary of Barn Burning
Seen on PBSWritten By: Horton Foote (Academy Award winning screenwriter)
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Kagan
Directed By: Peter Werner Description: Abe 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. Snope 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.
Adpated 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.
DVD Extras: About the Author, Actors? Bios, About the American Short Story Collection, Henry Fonda Intro, Printable Study Guide
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