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... a story of childhood adventure steeped in the rural culture of life on the Mississippi and the mythology of Huckleberry Finn, but this boy’s adventure is also tangled in the world of adults and family bonds.

A film that mixes the intimate with the epic, thrilling action with slow-burning drama, Mud is a searing 2012 slice of Southern US-set cinema which rivals the brilliant Beasts of the Southern Wild from the same year.

The influence of Mark Twain lingers in the warm air of this present-day drama.

Mud could have very easily declined into a world-shattering tragedy, but Nichols stays true to Twain’s style in the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer novels and instills both Ellis and Mud with the hopeful purity of youth.