Under the thumb of her abusive husband, post-middle age Willadean feels life has passed her by until she makes some unlikely friends.
Acting
Beth Grant's trembling fragility is devastating.
Acting
Octavia Spencer brings warmth that cracks the whole film open.
Writing
Del Shores knows small-town suffocation intimately.
Director
Del Shores
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Del Shores adapted this from his own stage play 'The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife,' keeping the original cast largely intact.
The film quietly depicts a 2000s rural South where Black and white working-class women forge solidarity that their men refuse them.
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