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One particularly important piece of this mosaic is Hushpuppy's relationship with her abusive father.

"They think we're all going to drown down here but we ain't going nowhere," narrates Hushpuppy. Her father Wink (Dwight Henry) isn't the most paternal of characters, leaving her alone to fend for herself, but he's all for toughening her up.

Faced with her father's fading health and environmental changes that release an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs, 6-year old Hushpuppy leaves her Delta-community home in search of her mother.

The Buff Club, Glasgow Killer Kitsch Euan Neilson, Dave Sinclair and newly recruited resident Hushpuppy (RPZ, Death Disco) present the city's best Tuesday nighter.

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) Channel 4, 12.40am "Once there was a Hushpuppy and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub..." The opening voiceover of Benh Zietlin's extraordinary debut suggests a modern day fairytale.

The film's protagonist is a young girl about the age of five named Hushpuppy (played by Quvenzhane Wallis).

More staggering is the fact she was only six when she played the part of Hushpuppy, a girl raised in a community without modern technology, which sounds like my big bro's worst nightmare.

Hushpuppy, played with breathtaking range by Quvenzhane Wallis, tries to make sense of her world.

ALREADY talked up as an Oscar contender, it stars child actress Quvenzhane Wallis as Hushpuppy. She lives in a New Orleans swamp and when a Katrina-like storm brews she must save herself and her alcoholic dad.

Tuesday The Buff Club, Glasgow Killer Kitsch Euan Neilson, Dave Sinclair and newly recruited resident Hushpuppy (RPZ, Death Disco) present the city's best Tuesday-nighter.

1.6 2.11 1.3 1.68 Hushpuppy 1.1 2.20 1.3 1.65 % Repeat % Dollars % Dollars Purchase Purchase with MFR Purchased Categories Cycle (days) 2 + Times Coupon On Deal DRY GROCERY 4 100% 4.7% 27.1% BABY FOOD 16 61 6.3 15.7 Strained 18 58 5.3 23.8 Cereal & Biscuits 27 63 7.0 14.9 Junior 20 60 9.4 20.3 Milk - Modified 16 69 5.6 12.5 Juice 25 58 12.3 20.9 BAKING FLOUR 60 68 0.7 20.2 All Purpose - White Wheat 67 62 0.7 26.2 Corn Meal 86 41 1.0 7.3 Single Purpose 75 33 0.6 8.1 All Purpose - Remaining 73 26 0.3 6.3 BAKING MIXES 35 89 8.3 29.6 Cake/Layer - Over 10 Oz.

In fact it is, by Hushpuppy, the six year-old child, and to describe it as ramshackle is to understate the state of disintegration and collapse in which the child lives.

Like Hushpuppy herself, "Beasts" seems determined not to go away.

10 Beasts Of The Southern Wild (12A) Faced with her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn courage and love.