God's Little Acre

God's Little Acre

Love! Hate! Pride! Passion! Rampant, Riotous In the Heat of a Southern Sun!

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Release Date

9/23/1958

Runtime

118 mins

Overview

In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A raw, chaotic family drama that mixes Southern Gothic tensions with earthy humor as poverty and desire unravel a clan obsessed with finding buried gold. The heat and desperation feel palpable, the tone swinging between bawdy comedy and genuine tragedy.

Mood

BittersweetTenseAngryDefiant

Themes

FamilyObsessionSurvival

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

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Sexual content

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