Release Date

17 Mar, 1980

Runtime

00:41: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adapted by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.

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Actors

Tommy Lee Jones

Diane Kagan

Shawn Whittington

Carolyn Coates

Michael Riney

Jennie Hughes

Julie Kaye Fanton

Al Scott

Tom Royals

Jimmy Faulkner

Jean Pettigrew

Thomas Hal Phillips

James Franks

Simpson Hemphill

Henry Fonda

Crew

Patrizia von Brandenstein

William Faulkner

Elizabeth Swados

Ken Golden

Peter Sova

Jay Freund

Robert Pusilo

Calvin Skaggs

Robert Geller

Horton Foote

Walter Rearick

Peter Werner