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"Mudbound," an adaptation of Hillary Jordan's novel, made its premiere Saturday, Jan. 21, at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in Park City. Set in the South just after World War II, the film tells the story of a city woman, Laura McAllen (Carey Mulligan), who tries to raise her children on a Mississippi Delta cotton farm owned by her husband Henry (Jason Clarke). When Henry's brother Jamie (Garrett Hedlund) returns from the war with a black soldier, Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell) — the son of the tenant farmers working the McAllen's land — tensions rise. Director Dee Rees ("Pariah," SFF '11) co-wrote with Virgil Williams; part of the Premieres program.