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Sounder
Running Time: 105 min.
Box Office: / $8,276,000
Produced By: / 20th Century Fox

Summary:
Martin Ritt's big-screen adaptation of William H. Armstrong's Newberry Award winning novel, Sounder stars Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks as a black family struggling through life in depression-era Louisiana. The Morgan family is poor, b... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew:
Cicely Tyson (Rebecca Morgan)
Paul Winfield (Nathan Lee Morgan)
Kevin Hooks (David Lee Morgan)
Carmen Mathews (Mrs. Boatwright)
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Review:
Director Martin Ritt -- who was blacklisted in the 1950s for his association with the Communist Party -- specializes in intimate, earthy southern dramas (Murphy's Romance, Norma Rae, Hud), and Sounder is one of his best works. Taj Mahal's sparse blue ... Continue >>