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Bastard out of Carolina is a 1996 film made by Showtime Networks, directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on a novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith. Jena Malone stars as a poor, physically abused and sexually molested girl.

The film won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special (Linda Lowy) and was nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special (Anjelica Huston), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special (Glenne Headly), and Outstanding Made for Television Movie (Amanda DiGiulio, Gary Hoffman). It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Jena Malone as Ruth, Lindley Mayer as Reese, Jamison Stewart as Grey, and Timothy Stewart as Garvey (from left to right) sitting while looking at each other and talking in a scene from the 1996 American drama film, Bastard Out of Carolina. Jena has short brown hair tucked in her ears, wearing a blue dress with prints under a black collared blazer; Lindley has long and straight brown hair clipped on the side, wearing a collared dress; Jamison has blonde hair, wearing a pair of old leather shoes, and a dirty collared sleeve shirt under a gray denim jumper; and Timothy in brown hair is wearing a grayish collared shirt inside his dark gray denim jumper.

Plot

A photograph showing snippets in a scene from the 1996 American drama film, Bastard Out of Carolina with signatures on it. On the left are Jena Malone and Jennifer Jason Leigh smiling with serious faces, standing while Jennifer's right arm is hugging Jena's waist while Jena's hands are on Jennifer's left hand. With a house in the background, Jena has short hair, wearing a blue collared dress with prints, and a black long sleeve blazer. Jennifer has long blonde hair wearing a belt on her printed puffed-sleeve dress. On the right Ron Eldard and Jena Malone where Ron is standing, talking and giving out a piece of paper to Jena who is sitting on a chair. Ron has short black hair wearing a black belt, a pair of pants, a leather jacket with a white shirt, and a collared shirt underneath; while Jena has short hair tucked in her ear, wearing a black long sleeve blazer over a checkered dress.

Ruth Anne, nicknamed "Bone" Boatwright, is a young girl growing up in Greenville, South Carolina in the 1950s. Born out of wedlock to Anney, Bone lives with her mother and their extended family in a poor part of town. Anney loves Bone, but is still very much a child herself, tired out from working and needy for attention and adoration. Bone and Anney nearly always have to face the shame of the "ILLEGITIMATE" stamp on Bone's birth certificate. When the county courthouse burns down, Anney is happy that a copy of Bone's birth certificate no longer exists.

A full DVD cover for Bastard Out of Carolina, a 1996 American drama film made by Showtime Networks, directed by Anjelica Huston, featuring Jena Malone as Ruth Anne and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Anney.

After her kind, hardworking first husband, Lyle Parsons, the father of Bone's half-sister, is killed in an automobile accident, Anney remarries a man named Glen Waddell, who seems attentive until Anney and Glen's baby dies at birth. Glen first molests Bone while waiting in the car for the birth of his child. Frustrated by the loss of his eagerly-anticipated son, Anney's inability to have more children, and his own inability to manage his temper and maintain steady employment, Glen begins to physically and sexually abuse Bone regularly, beating her in the bathroom. Bone wakes her mother up in the middle of the night, barely able to walk because of the immense pain she is in. Anney takes her to the hospital, where the doctor berates Anney for beating the child so badly that her coccyx is broken. The only thing Bone says is 'Mama.' Anney takes Bone to the car, leaving the hospital against the doctor's wishes, and slaps Glen's hand away as he tries to comfort the girl. Anney is saddened and angered by her new husband's behavior towards her child and takes Bone to her sister Alma's house to recuperate. However, once Bone is better, Anney returns to Glen after he swears to never touch Bone again.

Jena Malone as Ruth Anne sitting and holding her hand on her leg while looking at Glenne Headly as Ruth who is lighting her cigarette with a stainless lighter with bare trees and a lake in the background, in a scene from the 1996 American drama film, Bastard Out of Carolina. Jena is wearing a beige hat, white socks, a pair of black sneakers, and blue denim pants. While Glenne is wearing a brown hat, a silver wristwatch on her left, a black bracelet on her right wrist, wearing a pair of blue denim pants, and a brown vest over a brown checkered collared long sleeve.

While reading with her mama at the cafe, Anney asks Bone to go and stay with her Aunt Ruth since she is very sick. Ruth asks Bone about Glen and if he has ever hurt her. Bone says no and the two grow close listening to gospel music on the radio. After a visit from Dee Dee, Ruth dies of sickness. At Aunt Ruth's funeral, Bone's Aunt Raylene finds her in the bathroom falling over drunk after drinking too much alcohol and when she tries to take her to a bed, she discovers lashes on her legs and alerts the girl's uncles, Earle, Wade, and Travis, and another man, who beat Glen unconscious. Bone is sent to live with her aunts, and eventually tells her mother that she is allowed to love Glen, but that Bone will never come home to him again. Eventually, Glen comes around while the aunts are out, trying to force her to come back. When she fights back, he punches and then rapes her. Anney discovers the rape and breaks a bottle over Glen's head, causing him to bleed, pulls and kicks him off of Bone, then carries her out of the house to her car while screaming at Glen. Glen stumbles out of the house after Anney, screaming his apologies and saying he can't live without her. Anney yells at him to stay away and puts Bone into her car. When Glen gets his hand on Anney, she pushes him away and gets into her car. Glen then leans against the car door and repeatedly smashes his head against it, screaming for Anney to kill him. Instead, she strokes his head in forgiveness, believing he will never hurt Bone again. Ultimately, Anney returns to Glen.

Jena Malone as Ruth Anne and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Anney (from left to right). Jena and Ruth were looking at each other and smiling at the back DVD cover of the 1996 American drama film, Bastard Out of Carolina. Jena has short brown hair, wearing a sailor-inspired blue blouse; while Jennifer has a brown head turban and wearing a printed V-neck dress.

Moments after, Bone is taken to the hospital by her Aunt Raylene. When a cop attempts to question her about who brutalized her, she refuses to reveal that it was Glen and calls out for her Momma who is nowhere to be found. In the end, Bone is allowed to stay with her Aunt Raylene and Uncle Earle, far away from the reach of those who would harm her. Her mother visits one final time to deliver to her the copy of her birth certificate without the mark of "ILLEGITIMATE", and apologizes for what happened, before driving away to rejoin Glen. Bone remains with her Aunt Raylene, and with this final, tearful goodbye, she cries for her mother's sacrifice and for the freedom she has at last achieved. Her final words are voiced in the narration by Laura Dern.

Jena Malone as Ruth Anne is serious, sitting and looking down while a man is in front of him and people in the background, in a scene from the 1996 American drama film, Bastard Out of Carolina. Jena has short hair wearing a white arm sling on her right, and a checkered dress. The man has short hair, wearing a black loosened necktie over a white collared long sleeve.

"Who had Momma been? What'd she wanted to be, or do before I was born? Once I was born, her hopes turned, and I climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun. Her life had folded into mine. Who would I be when I was 15, 20, 30? Would I be as strong as she had been? As hungry for love? As desperate, determined and ashamed? I wouldn't know that I was already who I was gonna be. Someone like her, like my Momma. A Boatwright. A bastard. A bastard outta Carolina." The film ends with Bone saying, "I love you, Momma."