Diane Kagan

Fifteen years after the strikingly titled THE BOY WHO CRIED BITCH (1991) -- the story of an out-of-control 12-year-old and his increasingly desperate mother -- crept briefly into theaters, screenwriter Catherine May Levin returned to the well of foulmouthed rage for this variation on the theme of bad parenting and its nightmarish consequences. (TV Guide)

Abe Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a tenant farmer whose violent nature proves to be his undoing in this movie adaptation of one of author William Faulkner's Gothic tales. Snopes sets fire to his employer's barn when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. Snopes's family is told to move on -- which leads to a troubling dilemma for the old man's son, Sarty, who yearns to liberate himself from all the strife.