Episode #270

Beasts of the Southern Wild

(2012)

Once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub.

It was an indie darling that went all the way to a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature, set loosely in the New Orleans south around the hurricane, really has its beating heart in 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, the sweet, moral, defiant Hushpuppy.