NEW YORK (AP) — The movies have tended to skip from slavery to the Civil Rights movement, but Dee Rees' "Mudbound" plunges into the complex tragedies of the in-between era of Jim Crow. The film, which Netflix hopes will be its first feature-film Oscar contender, follows two neighboring families — one black, one white — on a hardscrabble farm in 1940s Mississippi. "I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land — how it's sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down," Rees says.
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By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
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