Barn Burning
Although made for next to nothing, this Faulkner adaptation is still a powerful tale of class hatred and family conflict. Tommie Lee Jones is great as the father.
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Barn Burning
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. Snope escapes justice for lack...Watch Movie
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Barn Burning
The Faulkner story is brilliant and complex in ways this version cannot capture. Horton Foote's screenplay is strikingly faithful to the original, but the direction and editing of this very...