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River of Grass is a american film of genre Drama directed by Kelly Reichardt released in USA on 13 october 1995 with Larry Fessenden
River of Grass (1995)
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Add to a movie listFor Marjory Stoneman Douglas's 1947 non-fiction book about the Florida Everglades, see The Everglades: River of Grass
River of Grass (1994) is the debut film of American director Kelly Reichardt, who also wrote the screenplay. It was selected for the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 1994, and for three Independent Spirit Awards in 1996.
The film is set in Broward and Dade Counties in Florida, between Miami and the Everglades (nicknamed "the River of Grass"). A local couple is involved in a shooting incident and then try to leave South Florida but lack the money to do so.
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Cozy is a dissatisfied housewife in her thirties who feels no emotional connection with her children. After getting dressed up to go to a bar she is nearly run over by Lee. Inside Lee buys Cozy a drink. He convinces her to break into a friend's home where they swim in a pool and Lee shows Cozy the gun that he was given by a friend who found it by the side of the road. While Lee shows Cozy how to use the gun the owner of the pool comes out to investigate and the gun goes off. Believing they have killed the man Cozy and Lee go on the run together.Actors
Larry Fessenden
(Lee Ray Harold)
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