Gal Young Un

Gal Young 'Un
Directed byVictor Nuñez
Screenplay byVictor Nunez
Based onGal Young 'Un
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Produced byVictor Nunez
StarringDana Preu
David Peck
J. Smith
Gene Densmore
CinematographyVictor Nunez
Music byAzalea Blossom String Band
Release date
  • September 24, 1979 (1979-09-24)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Gal Young 'Un is a 1979 American drama film directed by Victor Nuñez.[1]

Plot

In the Prohibition era, the late 1920s, in the backwoods country of Florida, Mattie, an independent, middle-aged, pipe-smoking widow, lives alone. She has given up society, but is a woman of property.

A man named Trax appears, in need of money, and courts Mattie, who is old enough to be his mother. Mattie is charmed by his youth. When Mattie asks why he'd want to marry someone as old and tired as she is, Trax says, "Why not? There's not a thing wrong with you."

Trax marries Mattie and starts to spend her money on drink. He brings home a teenager to work as a housekeeper (the "gal young-un" of the title). She is young and giggly, and Mattie resents her; Trax obviously prefers the gal young-un and intends to move her into Mattie's home as his new partner. The girl appears very innocent, and Mattie is also angry at Trax for eagerly exploiting such a young woman, and realizes she has similarly been taken in by his charm.

The movie ends with Trax run off by Mattie holding a shotgun. She tells the girl to leave, go away and follow him, but Gal Young-Un replies: "He don't want me" and sits on Mattie's porch until she finally invites her in and gives her supper.

The ending of the movie has the two women sitting by the fire together, the young girl petting a cat, as Mattie says to the purring cat: "It's nice to have people around, isn't it?"

Premiere and reception

The film was first shown at the 1979 New York Film Festival. It cost $94,000 to make the film with 30 percent of the financing coming from the National Endowment for the Arts, 25 percent from the Florida Fine Arts Council and the remaining from private investors and had a gross revenue of $500,000. The film was based on a 1932 short story by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings[2] and shot entirely in Florida. It won the Silver Hugo Award for Best First Feature from the Chicago International Film Festival, top prize from the USA Film and Video Festival[3] and the O. Henry Award.[4] The New Statesman called it a "gem of a film"[5] while Emanuel Levy said it "helped shape regional cinema within the independent movement".[2]

References

  1. ^ Low-Budget, Independent Films, 1981 – Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews
  2. ^ a b Levy, Emmanuel (2001). Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film. New York University Press. p. 169. ISBN 0814751245. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  3. ^ Goodell, Gregory (2003). Independent Feature Film Production: A Complete Guide from Concept Through Distribution. Macmillan Publishers. p. 22. ISBN 9780312304621. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  4. ^ Steven R. Serafin, Alfred Bendixen (2005). The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. A & C Black. p. 933. ISBN 0826417779. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  5. ^ New Statesman, 1980, Volume 100, page 56

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