Self-consciously feminist but rather mild and inoffensive biographical film about novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- inoffensive except maybe to fellow writers, who will have their own way of looking at her bouts of speed-typing when she is "inspired." The emphasis is on the group of people in the Florida backwater who first gave the author the idea of writing about What She Knows. The locale itself goes somewhat unappreciated until a few afterthought shots near the end. Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, and Alfre Woodard; directed by Martin Ritt. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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