Blues for Willadean
2012 American film
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Blues for Willadean is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Del Shores and starring Beth Grant and Octavia Spencer.[1][2] It is based on Shores’ 2003 play The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife.[1][3]
Directed byDel Shores
Screenplay byDel Shores
Based onThe Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife
by Del Shores
by Del Shores
Produced by
- Emerson Collins
- Beth Grant
- Robert L. Rearden III
- Robert L. Rearden Jr.
- Del Shores
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| Directed by | Del Shores |
| Screenplay by | Del Shores |
| Based on | The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife by Del Shores |
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| Cinematography | David Sanderson |
| Edited by | Luis Colina |
| Music by | Joe Patrick Ward |
Production companies | Del Shores Productions Big Leap Productions |
| Distributed by | Kestrel Films |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
The story is about Willadean, a woman who explores the shame, emotions and privacy of battered women. A film mixed with drama, humor, pain but which offers just hope to abused women. Willadean, wife of a truck driver, tries to escape from the small prison she built thanks to a friend and friend LaSonia who is always close to her and is a blues singer and encourages her with music.
Cast
- Beth Grant as Willadean Winkler
- Octavia Spencer as LaSonia Robinson
- Dale Dickey as Rayleen Hobbs
- David Steen as J.D. Winkler
- Debby Holiday as Blues Singer
- Louise Beard as Mrs. Garrison
