Bastard Out Of Carolina
A girl in South Carolina of the 1950s fighting the label "trash"' and the violent advances of her stepfather: that's the story of "Bastard Out Of Carolina" by Dorothy Allison.
When Ruth Ann Boatwright (nicknamed Bone) is born to 15-year-old unmarried Anney, the word "illegitimate" is stamped in big red letters on the birth certificate; for years, Anney will stubbornly try to get a new document without the glaring stigma.
She will also try to make a decent home for her two daughters, marrying a man who makes Bone a scapegoat for his frustrations: she suffers beatings and sexual molestation, keeping silent in order not to spoil her mother's hard-won happiness.
Graphic in its depiction of Southern poverty, family ties, illegitimacy, child abuse, and rape, the Bastard Out Of Carolina book went on to win the Ferro Grumley and Bay Area Reviewers Award for fiction.
Bastard Out Of Carolina - The Movie
Bastard Out of Carolina is a 1996 film directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on the novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith.
Jena Malone stars as a poor, physically abused and sexually molested girl.In 1997, the theatrical and video releases of the film were banned by Canada's Maritime Film Classification Board. The video was eventually granted release upon appeal.
The Bastard Out Of Carolina movie won the Emmy Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special (Linda Lowy) and was nominated Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special (Anjelica Huston), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special (Glenne Headly), and Outstanding Made for Television Movie (Amanda DiGiulio, Gary Hoffman).