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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 |
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]
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.