Mudbound (film)

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Mudbound
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Directed by Dee Rees
Screenplay by
Based on Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
Produced by
  • Carl Effenson
  • Sally Jo Effenson
  • Cassian Elwes
  • Charles King
  • Christopher Lemole
  • Kim Roth
  • Tim Zajaros
Starring
Cinematography Rachel Morrison
Edited byMako Kamitsuna
Music by Tamar-kali
Production
companies
  • Elevated Films
  • Joule Films
Distributed by Netflix
Release dates
  • January 21, 2017 (2017-01-21)(Sundance)
  • November 17, 2017 (2017-11-17)(United States)
Running time
134 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10 [2] –$11.1 million [3]
Box office$117,344 [4]

Mudbound is a 2017 American historical drama film directed by Dee Rees. It was written by Rees and Virgil Williams, who based their screenplay on the 2008 novel Mudbound by Hillary Jordan. It stars Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Jonathan Banks, Rob Morgan, and Mary J. Blige. [5] The film depicts two World War II veterans – one white, one black – who return to rural Mississippi each to address racism and PTSD in his own way. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2017, [6] and was released on Netflix and in limited release on November 17, 2017, to positive reviews.

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At the 75th Golden Globe Awards it received nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Blige) and Best Original Song ("Mighty River"). [7] At the 90th Academy Awards, the film earned four nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Blige; Best Original Song for Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson (Blige became the first person to ever be nominated for both acting and songwriting in the same year); Best Adapted Screenplay for Rees and Virgil Williams (Rees became the first African-American woman to ever be nominated) and Best Cinematography, which made Rachel Morrison the first woman nominated in the category.

Plot

In the Mississippi Delta, white brothers Henry and Jamie McAllan dig a grave during a rainstorm and struggle to lower their deceased father's coffin into it. When the Jacksons, a black sharecropper family pass by in a wagon, Henry asks the father, Hap, for help. Henry seems uncomfortable asking and Hap hesitates to reply.

A few years prior, Henry is conned out of renting a home and is forced to live near sharecroppers on a farm outside the town of Marietta, Mississippi and moves there with his wife Laura, their daughters, and his virulently racist father, Pappy. The Jackson family, led by tenant farmer Hap and his wife Florence, work the farm's cotton field and dream of owning their own land one day. As World War II begins, Jamie and the Jacksons' eldest son, Ronsel, join the United States Army Air Corps and U.S. Army, respectively. Both men experience severe war trauma in the European theater as Jamie flies B-25 bombers and Ronsel commands tanks. Ronsel also falls in love with a white German woman. Meanwhile, in Mississippi both families continue to live in poverty and support each other out of necessity. When the Jacksons' mule has to be euthanized, Henry offers to rent out his mule but exacts half of the Jacksons' crop in payment, leaving the Jacksons no choice but to accept. Florence also helps the McAllan family when their two young daughters fall ill with whooping cough; and then Laura offers Florence work to help care for her daughters permanently. Hap, who serves as the preacher for the local black community, falls while helping to build a church, breaking his leg and rendering him unable to work his fields. Laura sneaks money from her husband's safe so Hap can be properly treated by a doctor, much to Henry's disapproval and causing their passionless marriage to worsen.

When the war ends, Ronsel and Jamie return home and realize that they have changed but the Mississippi Delta has not. Jamie becomes an alcoholic and suffers from PTSD. Ronsel, accustomed to the relative lack of racism among Europeans, struggles with racism in Mississippi. They become aware of each other's difficulties and bond over their war experiences. Ronsel questions why Jamie treats him with respect, and Jamie recounts that on a bomber mission a black fighter pilot saved his life. Jamie grows close to Laura but his alcoholism worsens and he drunkenly crashes his truck. Henry leaves on a trip and tells Jamie to depart from the farm before he returns. Ronsel receives a letter and photo from the German woman with whom he had been romantically involved and learns that they had a child together and she wants him to come to Europe. The photo is of her and their bi-racial child. Ronsel shares this with Jamie while driving together when their truck passes Pappy, and Ronsel is forced to duck down to hide. Pappy confronts Jamie about him socializing with Ronsel and scolds him for his drunken behavior and sneers at Laura, claiming she has romantic feelings for Jamie. Later, Ronsel realizes that he lost the photograph, which Pappy finds in the truck. Laura confronts Jamie as he prepares to leave and they have sex.

As Ronsel frantically searches for his photograph, he is ambushed and beaten by Pappy and members of the Ku Klux Klan. Pappy brings Jamie to a barn where the Klan is preparing to kill Ronsel for fathering a child with a white woman. Jamie points a gun at his father in an effort to save his friend and is also beaten by the Klan. As Jamie is restrained, he is told to choose Ronsel's punishment for his crime — to lose his eyes, tongue or testicles; or death. Through the pain, Jamie whispers "tongue" and Ronsel's tongue is cut out. Ronsel is left bound and wounded for his family to find. Fed up, later that night, Jamie wakes Pappy who had previously belittled Jamie's war experience because he had not looked into the eyes of the people he killed during the war. Jamie looks Pappy in the eye and smothers him with a pillow. Laura lies to Henry that Pappy died in his sleep.

The following day, the Jacksons appear to be leaving with their meager belongings in the wagon when they pass Henry and Jamie who are struggling to bury Pappy. Hap accedes to Henry's request to help with the coffin and says a prayer over the grave. In a rebuke to Pappy's wickedness, Hap recites from the Book of Job, verses 14:2–12. Jamie approaches the Jacksons' wagon and gives the German woman's letter to Florence, asking her to give it to Ronsel.

Much later, Jamie moves to the city. Ronsel returns to Europe and reunites with his German lover and their son.

Cast

Production

Development on the film was announced on March 21, 2016, with Dee Rees engaged as director and Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke and Jason Mitchell cast in roles. [8] On May 25, Mary J. Blige was added to the cast. [9] On May 31, Jonathan Banks and Rob Morgan were cast. [10]

Filming

Filming began in New Orleans, Louisiana, in May 2016. [10] For the film's opening scene, artificial rain produced by rain towers was used, while actual rain was filmed for wide shots. [11] Shooting took place over the course of 29 days, [11] including two days in Budapest, Hungary, for scenes set during World War II. [12]

The production was impacted by both heat and stormy weather. On one occasion, Rachel Morrison, the film's director of photography, developed sun poisoning. [12] On another occasion, filming had to be postponed due to a nearby tornado warning. [12] A scene between the characters Ronsel and Jamie that was initially planned to take place on the side of a road was altered due to rain, instead taking place inside Jamie's pickup truck. [12]

Cinematography

Dee Rees asked Morrison to focus on "the idea of the American dream vs. the American reality," so Morrison turned to books by Farm Security Administration photographers for reference points regarding color and composition, in particular Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn and Walker Evans. Another primary source for her was a Gordon Parks essay in Life magazine in the 1950s called "A Segregation Story" – regarding color that "felt period, but it didn't feel washed-out". [13]

Morrison's term for the goal they tried to achieve is "subjective naturalism," which she describes as first of all, real, and then potentially dramatized with light at main plot points – but remaining real throughout. [13] Through that reality, the focus was on the elements in the picture and not the period itself: "The period wasn't a character in this film. The mud was a character, the weather was a character, the house was a character ... we were trying to make more of a commentary about just how tough times were through experiences." [13] A. O. Scott in the New York Times wrote of the result: "Rachel ... brings the soil, the flora and the weather to life in a way that emphasizes the archaic, elemental power of the story." [14]

Costume design

Michael T. Boyd served as the film's costume designer. [15] Some of the clothing worn by the poorer characters in the film appears dated more to the 1930s, as opposed to the 1940s when the film takes place; this was an intentional decision meant to give the impression of clothes passed down between generations of people unable to afford newer ones. [15] The military and pilot uniforms seen in the film were replicas of real uniforms. [15]

For the scene in which Ronsel is ambushed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Boyd utilized a mixture of outfits, with "the poorer men with the feed bag-looking hoods with the eyes cut out and tied with a string and others with the full Klan regalia. I don't think it would have been as powerful a scene if I would have had them all dress in white robes. It's somehow more real and intimate; this wasn't a parade or a burning-cross meeting for show but pure intimate violence and I think the mixture added texture to the event." [15]

Release

Following its 2017 Sundance Film Festival premiere, Mudbound had distribution offers from A24, Annapurna Pictures and Entertainment Studios. [16] On January 29, 2017, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film for $12.5 million in the largest deal made at Sundance that year. [17] The film premiered on the streaming platform, as well as began a one-week theatrical release in New York City and Los Angeles, on November 17, 2017.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 199 reviews, with an average rating of 8.20/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Mudbound offers a well-acted, finely detailed snapshot of American history whose scenes of rural class struggle resonate far beyond their period setting." [18] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [19]

Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, praising the cast and direction. [20] Writing for Rolling Stone , Peter Travers also gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, praising Blige's performance and Rees' direction, saying: "The director and her cinematographer Rachel Morrison do wonders with the elements that batter the people of every race and social class in the Delta. But it's the storm raging inside these characters that rivets our attention and makes Mudbound a film that grabs you and won't let go." [21]

In 2019, The A.V. Club named Mudbound on its list of the 100 best movies of the 2010s. [22]

Accolades

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
AACTA International Awards January 6, 2018 Best Supporting Actress Mary J. Blige Nominated [23]
AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards February 5, 2018Best EnsembleThe cast of MudboundNominated [24]
Academy Awards March 4, 2018 Best Supporting Actress Mary J. BligeNominated [25]
Best Adapted Screenplay Dee Rees and Virgil Williams Nominated
Best Cinematography Rachel Morrison Nominated
Best Original Song "Mighty River" – Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson Nominated
Alliance of Women Film Journalists January 9, 2018Best Adapted ScreenplayDee Rees and Virgil WilliamsNominated [26]
Best Actress in a Supporting RoleMary J. BligeNominated
Best Ensemble Cast – Casting DirectorBilly Hopkins and Ashley IngramWon
Best Woman DirectorDee ReesNominated
Best Woman ScreenwriterDee Rees and Virgil WilliamsNominated
American Society of Cinematographers February 17, 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Rachel MorrisonNominated [27]
Austin Film Critics Association January 8, 2018 Best Supporting ActressMary J. BligeNominated [28]
Best Adapted ScreenplayDee Rees and Virgil WilliamsNominated
Best CinematographyRachel MorrisonNominated
Black Reel Awards February 22, 2018 Outstanding Film MudboundNominated [29] [30]
Outstanding Director Dee ReesNominated
Outstanding Supporting Actor Jason Mitchell Won
Outstanding Supporting Actress Mary J. BligeNominated
Outstanding Screenplay Virgil Williams and Dee ReesNominated
Outstanding Ensemble Billy Hopkins and Ashley IngramWon
Outstanding Original Song "Mighty River" – Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura StinsonWon
Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Female Mary J. BligeNominated
Chicago Film Critics Association December 12, 2017 Best Supporting Actor Jason MitchellNominated [31]
[32]
Best Supporting Actress Mary J. BligeNominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Dee Rees and Virgil WilliamsNominated
Best Cinematography Rachel MorrisonNominated
Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 11, 2018 Best Supporting Actress Mary J. BligeNominated [33]
Best Ensemble The cast of MudboundNominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Dee Rees and Virgil WilliamsNominated
Best Cinematography Rachel MorrisonNominated
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 13, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Mary J. Blige3rd Place [34]
Detroit Film Critics Society December 7, 2017Best EnsembleThe cast of MudboundNominated [35]
Dorian Awards February 24, 2018Supporting Film Performance of the Year – ActressMary J. BligeNominated [36]
[37]
Florida Film Critics Circle December 23, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Mary J. BligeNominated [38]
[39]
Georgia Film Critics Association January 12, 2018Best Adapted ScreenplayDee Rees and Virgil WilliamsNominated [40]
Best CinematographyRachel MorrisonNominated
Best Original Song"Mighty River" – Raphael Saadiq, Mary J. Blige and Taura StinsonNominated
Best EnsembleThe cast of MudboundNominated
Golden Globe Awards January 7, 2018 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Mary J. BligeNominated [41]
Best Original Song "Mighty River" – Raphael Saadiq, Mary J. Blige and Taura StinsonNominated
Golden Tomato Awards January 3, 2018Best Limited Release 2017Mudbound5th Place [42]
Best Drama Movie 2017Mudbound3rd Place
Gotham Independent Film Awards November 27, 2017 Breakthrough Actor Mary J. BligeNominated [43]
Special Jury Award – Ensemble PerformanceThe cast of MudboundWon
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards February 8, 2018Best Song/Recording Created for a Film"Mighty River"Nominated [44]
Hollywood Film Awards November 5, 2017Hollywood Breakout Ensemble AwardThe cast of MudboundWon [45]
Hollywood Breakout Actress AwardMary J. BligeWon
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 16, 2017Original Score – Feature Film Tamar-kali Nominated [46]
Original Song – Feature Film"Mighty River" – Raphael Saadiq, Mary J. Blige and Taura StinsonNominated
Humanitas Prize February 16, 2018Feature – DramaDee Rees and Virgil WilliamsWon [lower-alpha 1] [47]
Independent Spirit Awards March 3, 2018 Robert Altman Award Dee Rees, Billy Hopkins, Ashley Ingram, Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan and Carey Mulligan Won [48]
IndieWire HonorsNovember 2, 2017Breakthrough PerformanceMary J. BligeWon [49]
Location Managers Guild Awards April 7, 2017Outstanding Locations in Period FilmWise Wolfe, Imre LegmanNominated [50]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association January 13, 2018 Best Supporting Actress Mary J. BligeRunner-up [51]
New York Film Critics Circle January 3, 2018 Best Cinematographer Rachel MorrisonWon [52]
New York Film Critics Online December 10, 2017Best PictureMudboundWon [lower-alpha 2] [53]
Best DirectorDee ReesWon
Best Ensemble CastThe cast of MudboundWon
Top Ten FilmsMudboundWon
Online Film Critics Society December 28, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Mary J. BligeNominated [54]
[55]
Best Cinematography Rachel MorrisonNominated
San Diego Film Critics Society December 11, 2017 Best Adapted Screenplay Dee Rees and Virgil WilliamsRunner-up [56]
[57]
Best EnsembleThe cast of MudboundWon
San Francisco Film Critics Circle December 10, 2017 Best Adapted Screenplay Dee Rees and Virgil WilliamsNominated [58]
Santa Barbara International Film Festival January 31, 2018Virtuoso AwardMary J. BligeWon [59]
Satellite Awards February 10, 2018 Best Film MudboundNominated [60]
Best Director Dee ReesNominated
Best Supporting Actress Mary J. BligeNominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards January 21, 2018 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The cast of MudboundNominated [61]
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Mary J. BligeNominated
St. Louis Film Critics Association December 17, 2017 Best Adapted Screenplay Dee Rees and Virgil WilliamsNominated [62]
[63]
USC Scripter Awards February 10, 2018Best ScreenplayDee Rees, Virgil Williams and Hillary Jordan Nominated [64]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association December 8, 2017 Best Director Dee ReesNominated [65]
Best Supporting Actor Jason MitchellNominated
Best Supporting Actress Mary J. BligeNominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Dee Rees and Virgil WilliamsWon
Best Cinematography Rachel MorrisonNominated
Best Acting Ensemble The cast of MudboundNominated
Women Film Critics Circle December 17, 2017Best Movie by a WomanMudboundNominated [66]
[67]
Best Woman StorytellerDee ReesNominated
Josephine Baker AwardMudboundWon
Karen Morley AwardMudboundNominated
Courage in FilmmakingDee ReesWon
Writers Guild of America Awards February 11, 2018 Best Adapted Screenplay Dee Rees and Virgil WilliamsNominated [68]
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