| Blues for Willadean | |
| Director: | Del Shores |
| Screenplay: | Del Shores |
| Music: | Joe Patrick Ward |
| Cinematography: | David Sanderson |
| Editing: | Luis Colina |
| Studio: | Del Shores Productions Big Leap Productions |
| Distributor: | Kestrel Films |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Blues for Willadean is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Del Shores and starring Beth Grant and Octavia Spencer.[1] [2] It is based on Shores’ 2003 play The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife.[1]
The story is about Willadean, a woman who explores the shame, emotions and privacy of battered women. A film mixed with drama, humor, pain but which offers just hope to abused women. Willadean, wife of a truck driver, tries to escape from the small prison she built thanks to a friend and friend LaSonia who is always close to her and is a blues singer and encourages her with music.
The film was shot in Atlanta.[3]