Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes, and respect.

Loosely based on the William Faulkner novel, this movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons, a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by--both financially and emotionally. Howard passes the time in a bottle; his brother Benjy is a child in a man's body; sister Caddy has come crawling home after years of being kept by a string of "admirers." Only Jason, the cruel, cold-hearted adopted head of the family and Quentin, whom Caddy abandoned at birth, have the fire and the fury needed to set the family back on their feet.—A.L.Beneteau <[email protected]>