‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Returns to Theaters

Surprise Best Picture Oscar nominee Beasts of the Southern Wild will be returning to theaters for a special limited engagement. Fox Searchlight’s planning on re-releasing the critically acclaimed indie drama in select cities on January 18, 2013 in support of the film’s four Oscar nominations.

In addition to Best Picture, Beasts earned Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actress Oscar nominations.

“We are thrilled to bring this special film back to theaters a year after it debuted to standing ovations in Park City. With the Academy Award nominations, we hope Benh’s sublime vision can continue to win over audiences as it has around the globe for the last year,” stated Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley.

Per the studio, the film will return to theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, Miami and Washington, DC.

The Plot:

Beasts of the Southern Wild is set in a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee where a six-year-old girl Hushpuppy (Best Actress Nominee Quvenzhane Wallis) exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.