Beasts of the Southern Wild: A 2013 Oscar Nominee For Best Picture (VIDEO)
“Beasts of the Southern Wild” movie? Yes, it is seldom talked about. But the Behn Zeitlin’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild” got a nod in the 2013 Oscar Awards Best Picture category. The film won the Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic in last year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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Movie synopsis:
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
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