In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
What's the story?
Six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis) is as fascinating as her name: As she walks around the cluttered, broken-down trailer in which she lives and the town in which she was raised, she picks up little creatures and objects -- a leaf, a rat -- and listens for their heartbeat. She's looking for signs of life. Across from her, in an equally dilapidated trailer, lives her father, Wink (Dwight Henry), who loves her fiercely but also loves to drink and wanders the days in a semi-drunken state, sometimes enraged, other times animated, and always, heartbroken. (Hushpuppy's mother is dead.) They live in Bathtub, a Lousiana bayou town in the shadows of a giant levee, filled with renegades like them who live hard and celebrate even harder. But when the levee breaks, there's not much to celebrate as they struggle to survive.
MOVIE INFO :
Topics: great girl role models
Studio:Fox Searchlight
Director:Benh Zeitlin
Cast:Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Quvenzhane Wallis
Genre:Drama
Run time:93 minutes
Theatrical release date:June 27, 2012
MPAA rating:PG-13
MPAA explanation:thematic material including child imperilment, some disturbing images, language and brief Production Details :
In Theaters: June 27, 2012
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for for thematic material including child imperilment, some disturbing images, language and brief sensuality)
Run Time:1 hour 32 minutes
Distributors:Fox Searchlight Pictures
Production Status:In Production / Awaiting Release
Produced In:United States
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