Barn Burning (1980)

Ab Snopes Tommy Lee Jones is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkners Barn Burning Snopes sets his employers barn on fire when he thinks hes been treated unfairly His son Sarty is horrified Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof but he and his family are told to move on No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer Torn between trying to win his fathers acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do Sarty must make a decision and act quickly Adapted by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote Faulkners complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boys attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty