As I Lay Dying
From the classic novel by William Faulkner
A dark, introspective adaptation of Faulkner's modernist novel that uses a funeral journey through rural poverty to explore family dysfunction, mortality, and the fragmentation of human experience.
Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to bury their deceased matriarch.
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