Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 81
Language: English
Director: James Franco
Plot: As I Lay Dying is adapted from the 1930 classic
American novel by William Faulkner. The story chronicles the Bundren family as
they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased
mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie’s husband Anse and their
children, Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and the youngest one Vardaman, leave
the farm on a carriage with her coffin – each affected by Addie’s death in a
profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson, some forty miles away, is
disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers, injury and
accident, a raging barn fire, and not least of all — each individual character’s
personal turmoil and inner commotion which at times threaten the fabric of the
family more than any outside force.