About this movie
- Genres:
- Drama, Adolescence
- Language:
- English
- Running time:
- 1:33:19
- Partner rating:
- Released:
- 2011
Cast & Crew
Cast
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Quvenzhané Wallis
Hushpuppy
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Dwight Henry
Wink
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Lowell Landes
Walrus
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Levy Easterly
Jean-Battiste
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Pamela Harper
Little Jo
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Gina Montana
Miss Bathsheba
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Amber Henry
LZA
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Jonshel Alexander
Joy Strong
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Nicholas Clark
Boy with Bell
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Joseph Brown
Winston
Directors
- Benh Zeitlin
Producers
- Dan Janvey
- Josh Penn
- Michael Gottwald
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
86%
percent positive reviews
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Christy Lemire, Associated Press
Beasts of the Southern Wild is sheer poetry on screen: an explosion of joy in the midst of startling squalor and one of the most visceral, original films to come along in a while.
– Full review
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CJ Johnson, ABC Radio (Australia)
This movie has to be seen to be believed, and to be believed, it simply has to be seen.
– Full review
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David Sexton, This is London
It doesn't ultimately make any sense at all and, for me, its charm wasn't enough to sustain the whole ramshackle structure.
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Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]
Benh Zeitlin's debut feature is part film, part hallucination: a ripe and gamey piece of what you might call Apocalyptic Southern Gothic, ambitious and flawed but sprinting with energy.
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Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph
Few American debuts in recent years have announced a talent as singular as that of Behn Zeitlin, the blazingly gifted director and co-writer of Beasts of the Southern Wild.
– Full review
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