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Released January 1st, 1999, 'Walking Across Egypt' stars Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark Hamill, Judge Reinhold, Ellen Burstyn The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min, and received a user score ...
Critics reviews. An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent.
DTaurean 26 July 1999. This adaptation of Clyde Edgerton's "Walking Across Egypt" is a gentle, character-driven drama, made by a team that has honored the simplicity and integrity of the project. Ellen Burstyn plays a Georgia widow who crosses paths with a young grifter (Jonathan Taylor Thomas).
The film follows the life of Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), an elderly woman who believes in strong religious convictions. The film explores the lonely qualities of life for senior citizens after their children leave as adults. Judge Reinhold and Gail O'Grady play Mattie's children who live in a deep southern town. Mattie soon finds a likable friend in the local dogcatcher, Lamar Benfield (Mark Hamill). It is through this relationship in which she meets the dogcatcher's nephew, a troubled ...
Walking Across Egypt (1999) Walking Across Egypt. (1999) Movie "For a tough kid whos lived a life of crime the struggle back is as hard as". Audience Score. 49. NR 1 hr 40 min Jan 1st, 1999 Comedy ...
His other novels include Walking Across Egypt, Killer Diller, Where Trouble Sleeps, Lunch at the Piccadilly, The Bible Salesman, and The Night Train. He has also written a book of advice entitled Papadaddy's Book for New Fathers and a memoir entitled Solo, My Adventures in the Air.
Jan 3, 1987 · As a native southerner, reading "Walking Across Egypt" was like visiting distant relatives during my own growing-up years in Alabama in the nineteen-fifties. Rich with southern nuance, every reader will appreciate its masterful dialect, dialog, and mannerisms that make the South the literary Petri dish it has been for centuries.
- Clyde Edgerton
