New York Times (Janet Maslin)
THE rural life imagined by Martin Ritt, in films like ''Norma Rae'' and ''Conrack'' and ''Sounder'' and now ''Cross Creek,'' doesn't have much to do with rural life as anyone else knows it. But it has its own sort of power and integrity, Hollywood-style.
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