A too beautiful south
Produced by Reese Witherspoon, Where The Crawdads Sing is adapted from the phenomenally successful 2018 debut novel by retired wildlife biologist Delia Owens, inspired by her years working in remote areas of Botswana and Zambia.
Where The Crawdads Sing
Director: Olivia Newman
Produced by Reese Witherspoon, Where The Crawdads Sing is adapted from the phenomenally successful 2018 debut novel by retired wildlife biologist Delia Owens, inspired by her years working in remote areas of Botswana and Zambia. The movie stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (BBC’s Normal People) and features an original song by Taylor Swift. Expectations can only be high.
The film is a coming-of-age melodrama set among the forest, marsh and coastline of North Carolina (although shot in Louisiana), and opens in 1969 with the discovery of a body beneath an old fire tower. In the apparently incriminating absence of any fingerprints or surrounding tracks, the despised “Marsh Girl”, Kya Clark (Edgar-Jones), is arrested for the murder of her abusive lover, Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson).
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