Where the Crawdads Sing: Daisy Edgar-Jones does her best in a mostly terrible film

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The Normal People star gets through her first major studio movie with dignity intact. But this really is meretricious hogwash.

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer Jr., David Strathairn, Jayson Warner SmithThrough the opening scenes of this largely terrible film I was pondering some variation on “Carson McCullers as reimagined by Foghorn Leghorn”. It is set in the American South. Bodies turn up in swamps. Paw wallops the little uns. Doo, dah! Doo, dah!

Based on a novel by Delia Owens that I’m not going to read, Where the Crawdads Sing plays out in flashbacks as a murder trial drags on in what we’re told is 1969. Some period detail would have been nice, but that might interfere with the familiar sub-Nicholas Sparks ambience. Her resilience is extraordinary. Abhorred by everyone in town apart from the wise and cosy African-American couple who run the store , David Strathairn as a cos-play Atticus Finch and off-the-peg sensitive hunk Taylor John Smith, Kya grows up into the most unlikely sort of success.

 

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