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THELMA

By Ken KWAPIS

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Drama - Pre-Production 2022

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Ken KWAPIS
- Writer(s)
- Andrew FAROTTE
- Cast
- Kathy BATES, Tim Blake NELSON, Lewis PULLMAN, John MALKOVICH, Stephen ROOT
- Producer(s)
- Johnny LIN (Filmula), Steven P. Wegner WEGNER
- Synopsis
- THELMA recounts the true story of the mother of John Kennedy Toole (Pullman), the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his masterpiece, and his mother Thelma (Bates) made it her life’s mission, through outrageous gamesmanship, to see the book published. She eventually succeeded in getting the manuscript into the hands of writer Walker Percy (Malkovich), who became the novel’s champion. It would be published in 1980, eleven years after Ken’s death, thereafter becoming one of the most widely celebrated books of the 20th century.