Victoria Shorr's "Backlands," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Backlands by Victoria Shorr.

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The characters in Backlands were real people, Brazilian outlaws, brave and tough and smart, and having traveled in the region and talked to so many people like them, people who knew them, it's harder for me to make that leap into casting than it would be for someone who only knew their story. The dream would be to cast the movie the way they cast Tom Jones, which absolutely caught the book by the tail. But...[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: Backlands.

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