The Southerner
Drama | English | 92 minutes
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Sam Tucker is a Texas sharecropper picking cotton with his wife Nona and his elderly uncle Pete. Pete suddenly collapses from the heat and dies. Before Pete dies he tells Sam, “Work for yourself; grow your own crops.” Sam heeds Pete’s advice and with Nona, his granny, and their children they set out to work on a 68-acre farm with little more than two mules, a secondhand plow, some cottonseed and fertilizer. They spend time plowing the soil, planting seeds, and hoping for a successful crop. Finally, just as it looks like they will have a profitable cotton crop, a violent storm destroys everything. A demoralized Sam decides to give up farming and accept a factory job. But when he returns to the farm he has second thoughts as he sees Nona and Granny feverishly cleaning up. They are both determined to start again.
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Why Stream This Film?
- Rotten Tomatoes Score (Critics Consensus): 93%
Accolades
- Academy Awards: Nominated, Best Director, (Jean Renoir)
- National Board of Review: Winner, Best Director (Jean Renoir); Listed, Top Ten Films
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Jean Renoir’s 1945 examination of dirt farmers in the American south is probably his finest Hollywood film, which is to say a masterpiece.
Jean Renoir has subtly combined his camera with sparse dialogue in the native idiom to tell his story simply and beautifully and without resorting to opinion or prejudice. THE SOUTHERNER may not be an entertainment in the rigid Hollywood sense but it is, nevertheless, a rich, unusual and sensitive delineation of a segment of the American scene worth seeing.
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