The Clearing
Release Date: Unspecified Release - Wide Release
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Film Genre: Drama
Country: United States
This is based on Knopf novel by Tim Gautreaux. A godforsaken mill town in the cypress swamps of Louisiana is the setting for a bitter power struggle in this darkly lyrical, densely packed second novel by Gautreaux (The Next Step in the Dance). In 1923, Raymond Aldridge sets out for the mill town-called Nimbus-in search of his brother, Byron. The two men are the heirs to a Pennsylvania timber empire, but ever since Byron came back from World War I, he has shunned his family.