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As I Lay Dying (film) As I Lay Dying (film) As I Lay Dying is a 2013 American drama film directed and co-written by and starring James Franco, based on William Faulkner's novel of the same name published in 1930. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard Section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The story is based on the loss of a mother and the struggles the family endure by going the distance to her burial ground in her home town. James Franco decided to write a screenplay of the novel with a fellow Yale graduate student Matt Rager. The novel "As