Blues for Willadean is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Del Shores and starring Beth Grant and Octavia Spencer. It is based on Shores’ 2003 play The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife.
Plot The story is about Willadean, a woman who explores the shame, emotions and privacy of battered women. A film mixed with drama, humor, pain but which offers just hope to abused women. Willadean, wife of a truck driver, tries to escape from the small prison she built thanks to a friend and friend LaSonia who is always close to her and is a blues singer and encourages her with music.
Cast Beth Grant as Willadean Winkler Octavia Spencer as LaSonia Robinson Dale Dickey as Rayleen Hobbs David Steen as J.D. Winkler Debby Holiday as Blues Singer Louise Beard as Mrs. Garrison
Production The film was shot in Atlanta.
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