Barn Burning
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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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Tommy Lee Jones
Ab Snopes
Known for
Men in Black
No Country for Old Men
Diane Kagan
Mother
Known for
Meet Joe Black
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Peter Werner
William Faulkner
Robert Geller
Also in
Too Far to Go
Shawn Whittington
Sarty Snopes
Horton Foote
Known for
The Civil War
Ken Golden
Carolyn Coates
Aunt
Known for
The Hustler
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Calvin Skaggs
Michael Riney
Brother
Also in
Times Square
Jennie Hughes
Lena Snopes
Also in
Alice and the Last Lottery
Peter Werner Director · William Faulkner Author Peter Sova Cinematographer
United States release March 17, 1980 · Produced in United States
Production
Learning in Focus
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 17, 1980
TV · PBS
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