Bastard Out of Carolina (film)

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Bastard Out of Carolina
DVD cover for Bastard Out of Carolina
Directed by	Anjelica Huston
Written by	Anne Meredith
Starring	Jena Malone
Release date(s)	1996
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Bastard Out of Carolina is a 1996 film directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on a novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith. Jena Malone stars as a poor, 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.

[edit] Plot

Ruth Anne, nicknamed "Bone", is a young girl growing up in South Carolina. She lives with her mother, Anney, who's a desperate, unstable woman. Anney marries a man named Glen, who at first seems all right. Anney and Glen have a baby boy who dies after birth. This rattles Glen, and he begins to change. Soon Glen begins to abuse his stepdaughter, Bone, both physically and sexually. Anney is saddened and disappointed by her new husband's behavior towards her child, but she turns a blind eye. One day, Bone's aunt discovers lashes on her legs and realizes that Glen has been beating the child. She alerts the girl's uncles and they attack him and beat him until he is bloody and unconscious. However, Glen continues with the abuse.