Additional information for Beasts of the Southern Wild, which has a domestic theatrical release set for June 27, 2012. The film is being distributed by Fox Searchlight and has not yet been rated. Beasts of the Southern Wild has a total running time of 93 minutes.
PG-13
USA
PG
Canada
12
Czech Republic
12A
UK
12
Netherlands
12A
Ireland
11
Sweden
11
Norway
10
Brazil
11
Denmark
12
Switzerland
PG13
Singapore
G
Japan
12
South Korea
M/12
Portugal
IIA
Hong Kong
13
Argentina
12
Germany
93min
20min
Bestias del sur salvaje
Chile
Bestias del sur salvaje
Spain
Τα μυθικά πλάσματα του Νότου
Greece
Зверовете от дивия Юг
Bulgaria
A messzi dél vadjai
Hungary
Bestas do Sul Selvagem
Portugal
Bestie z poludniowych krain
Poland
Düsler Diyari
Turkey
Divoká stvorení jizních krajin
Czech Republic
Hayot ha'darom ha'pirie
Israel
Hushpuppy
Denmark
Indomável Sonhadora
Brazil
La niña del sur salvaje
Argentina
Les Bêtes du Sud sauvage
France
Re della terra selvaggia
Italy
Ta mythika plasmata tou Notou
Greece
Tarâmul visurilor
Romania
Una niña maravillosa
Mexico
Zveri južnih divljina
Serbia
Zvijeri južnih divljina
Croatia
January 20, 2012
USA
April 01, 2012
USA
May 18, 2012
France
May 31, 2012
USA
June 21, 2012
USA
June 27, 2012
USA
June 27, 2012
USA
June 30, 2012
Germany
July 03, 2012
Czech Republic
July 05, 2012
Israel
July 05, 2012
Russia
July 13, 2012
Canada
July 17, 2012
Ukraine
July 19, 2012
Poland
July 26, 2012
Israel
August 09, 2012
Czech Republic
August 23, 2012
Puerto Rico
September 07, 2012
France
September 13, 2012
Australia
September 14, 2012
Netherlands
September 14, 2012
South Africa
September 20, 2012
Finland
September 20, 2012
Switzerland
September 21, 2012
Hungary
September 21, 2012
Spain
September 28, 2012
Estonia
September 29, 2012
Brazil
September 29, 2012
Iceland
September 30, 2012
Greece
October 12, 2012
Poland
October 12, 2012
UK
October 13, 2012
Spain
October 16, 2012
United Arab Emirates
October 18, 2012
Netherlands
October 19, 2012
India
October 19, 2012
Ireland
October 19, 2012
UK
October 24, 2012
Netherlands
October 26, 2012
Norway
November 07, 2012
Sweden
November 09, 2012
Portugal
November 09, 2012
Taiwan
November 24, 2012
Republic of Macedonia
November 29, 2012
New Zealand
November 30, 2012
Serbia
December 12, 2012
Belgium
December 12, 2012
France
December 20, 2012
Germany
December 20, 2012
Switzerland
December 21, 2012
Austria
January 03, 2013
Denmark
January 04, 2013
Taiwan
January 10, 2013
Hungary
January 11, 2013
Finland
January 11, 2013
Sweden
January 11, 2013
Turkey
January 25, 2013
Spain
January 31, 2013
Croatia
January 31, 2013
Singapore
February 07, 2013
Argentina
February 07, 2013
Greece
February 07, 2013
Italy
February 14, 2013
Mexico
February 14, 2013
Portugal
February 15, 2013
Uruguay
February 22, 2013
Brazil
February 28, 2013
Kuwait
March 05, 2013
Serbia
March 07, 2013
Hong Kong
March 14, 2013
United Arab Emirates
March 28, 2013
Lebanon
April 12, 2013
Romania
April 20, 2013
Japan
April 20, 2013
Portugal
July 04, 2013
Chile
August 29, 2013
Peru
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Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
In a forgotten yet defiant bayou community called the Bathtub, cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, six-year-old Hushpuppy exists on the brink of orphanhood. Her mother is long gone, and her beloved father Wink is a wildman on a perpetual spree. When Wink is home, he lives under a different roof: Wink in a rusted-out shack, and Hushpuppy in a trailer propped on two oil drums. More often than not, Hushpuppy is left to her own devices on their isolated compound filled with feral wildlife, where she perceives the natural world to be a fragile web of living, breathing, squirting things, wherein the entire universe depends on everything fitting together just right.While life in the Bathtub is defined by both resilience and celebration, at the local elementary school(boat), Hushpuppy's no-nonsense teacher, Miss Bathsheba, educates her ragtag students about natural selection, global warming, and the huge ecological shifts that have pitted the Bathtub on the front line for extinction. "Learn to live with one another, and adapt!" she instructs. "Y'all better learn how to survive, now..."Reality crashes down on Hushpuppy's world when Wink comes down with a mysterious illness, and nature
begins to spiral out of control. A massive storm brews, the ice caps melt, and Wink shakes on the ground at her feet after a mere punch. Hushpuppy becomes convinced that the science attacking her environment and her father's insides are inextricably linked.Half a world away, in an unforeseen result of these sudden global shifts, fierce prehistoric beasts thaw out of the ice, righting themselves on firm ground after centuries immobile.As the waters rise around the bayou shrimping town, while all the practical people run for higher ground, Wink and his brigade of drunken sweethearts insist on staying put. He and Hushpuppy are forced to hole up together in Wink's rickety shack and ride out the hurricane, Wink firing a shotgun into the sky, defying the forces of nature. When morning breaks, the two find the Bathtub destroyed, empty, and almost totally submerged.Wink and Hushpuppy collect the other holdouts, and as is custom, greet their situation with celebration instead of remorse: They throw a party with all the remaining shrimp, crab, and beer. Miss Bathsheba kills the mood by
reminding Wink that the excess of salt water in the Bathtub has likely killed all the flora and fauna that had
provided their sustenance; they could be consuming the last the bayou has to offer. Wink takes a swig of
beer and shrugs her off: "I got it under control". But his attempts to teach Hushpuppy to survive on her own in this altered environment fall short; a lesson on how to fish with bare hands leaves her in pain.The next morning, Hushpuppy is awoken by Wink and company sneaking out with a giant garfish filled with
explosives, the crackpot plan being to blow up the levee keeping all the water in, and drain out their homeland. Miss Bathsheba, the only one who understands the science of why this is a very bad idea, stops Wink, but not Hushpuppy, from executing the kamikaze scheme. The results are disastrous: The drained Bathtub, now resembling, a mushy, scorched-earth land formerly bursting with plants and animals, is now dead. Though Wink refuses to accept it, Hushpuppy can tell that the fabric of nature has unraveled around her, and that the "unending" bounty of the bayou is over.The fearsome beasts now cut looming shadows against the horizon and charge their way across continents, snarling, growling, knife-sharp horns glimmering as they head south...Soon afterwards, suddenly reminded of their existence, the government subjects the Bathtub to a mandatory
evacuation, and men with bullhorns and strange accents whisk away Hushpuppy, Wink, and the other residents. They are taken to a sterile, gloomy refugee camp hospital, where everyone looks as bleak as "fish in a fish tank without water", according to Hushpuppy. In the care of the state, she is immediately dressed in unnatural-feeling "acceptable" clothing with the other unruly Bathtub kids. Confronted with his diagnosis from the doctors, Wink tries to give Hushpuppy away. Furious, Hushpuppy refuses, and Wink must finally tell her the truth: He's dying.At last, it hits Hushpuppy that her father isn't the maniacal superman she believed him to be. Out of his natural environment, he begins coughing up blood, and asks his friends to take him to the only place he knows as home. Unable to watch Wink on his deathbed, Hushpuppy flees across the water toward a light in the distance she believes to be her mother. A mysterious boatman plucks her out of the sea and takes her to his favorite nightclub, the Elysian Fields Floating Catfish Shack: "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS". As Hushpuppy wanders this ethereal paradise, out of the kitchen steps a woman who stares at her with eyes like hers. "Let me show you a magic trick", she tells the awed Hushpuppy. Whipping up some killer grits n' gator and dishing out no-nonsense advice, she gives Hushpuppy a moment of love she's been looking for her whole life. But as they dance together, Hushpuppy realizes she has a duty to return to her father and The Bathtub before it's too late for both of them.The creatures suddenly appear on the parched crest before the dried-up bayou, a tiny girl in their crosshairs. They charge up behind her, when suddenly she swirls around to face them with eyes as fearless as theirs. They share a moment of primal understanding, and the beasts kneel before her. She goes on her way...Back in the Bathtub, Hushpuppy shares a last supper of fried gator with Wink in his broken shack. Having reconciled with her father and accepted nature's chosen path, she returns to her friends and family, a hardened warrior, and they parade into the Southern Wild as water laps at their feet.("Long Synopsis" from the Festival de Cannes press kit for Beasts of the Southern Wild).
Benh Zeitlin
Director(s)
Lucy Alibar
Benh Zeitlin
Lucy Alibar
Writer(s)
Chris Carroll
co-producer
Casey Coleman
associate producer
Philipp Engelhorn
executive producer
Annie Evelyn
associate producer
Michael Gottwald
producer
Nathan Harrison
associate producer
Dan Janvey
producer
Lucas Joaquin
unit producer: aurochs and special effects
Paul Mezey
executive producer
Matthew Parker
co-producer
Josh Penn
producer
Michael Raisler
executive producer
John R. Williams
associate producer (as John Williams)
Producer(s)
Dan Romer
Benh Zeitlin
Composer(s)
Hushpuppy
Quvenzhané Wallis
Wink
Dwight Henry
Jean Battiste
Levy Easterly
Walrus
Lowell Landes
Little Jo
Pamela Harper
Miss Bathsheba
Gina Montana
LZA
Amber Henry
Joy Strong
Jonshel Alexander
Boy with Bell
Nicholas Clark
Winston
Joseph Brown
Peter T
Henry D. Coleman
T-Lou
Kaliana Brower
Dr. Maloney
Philip Lawrence
Open Arms Babysitter
Hannah Holby
Sgt. Major
Jimmy Lee Moore
The Cook
Jovan Hathaway
Baby Hushpuppy
Kendra Harris
Herself
Windle Bourg
Cabaret Singer (uncredited)
Marilyn Barbarin
Barge Girl (uncredited)
Roxanna Francis
Hospital Patient (uncredited)
Jay Oliver
Rosasharn (uncredited)
Paisley Layne Zerangue
Director(s)
Benh Zeitlin
Lucy Alibar
Writer(s)
co-producer
Casey Coleman
associate producer
Philipp Engelhorn
executive producer
Annie Evelyn
associate producer
Michael Gottwald
producer
Nathan Harrison
associate producer
Dan Janvey
producer
Lucas Joaquin
unit producer: aurochs and special effects
Paul Mezey
executive producer
Matthew Parker
co-producer
Josh Penn
producer
Michael Raisler
executive producer
John R. Williams
associate producer (as John Williams)
Producer(s)
Benh Zeitlin
Composer(s)
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