Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012) 7/10

Starring : Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly
Director : Benh Zeitlin
Running Time : 94 mins

Hushpuppy (Wallis) is a six-year old girl who lives with her sick father Wink (Henry) in a community colloquially known as the bathtub – a fishing community that is in danger of flooding due to the melting polar icecaps and separated from the North by a giant flood barrier. When a storm hits and she is flooded out of her home and her father is hospitalised, she decides to journey in search of her mother.

I was surprised to find that this was a fantasy movie, having thought it was just going to be a simple drama about a girl trying to survive in Americas Deep South. Wallis is cute in the lead role, and manages to make this interesting in spite of her lack of acting experience, but this could have done with a little less predictability and a little more heart.

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