- HD 1080
- Runtime: 118m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
- Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Merritt Butrick, John Philbin
- keywords: journalist, sibling relationship, drug addiction, louisiana, swamp, bayou, rural area, cajoons
- Production_studio: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
- Slogan: Women from separate worlds bound by a secret that will haunt them forever.
- providers: MGM Plus
- The Shy People is featured in the top rankings of 1987
- #78 in Top Drama Movies of 1987
New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.