Fresh
Director Martin Ritt soaks us in the heat, the beauty, the racism and the buzzing cicadas of Louisiana.
Michael Booth, Denver Post
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Sounder
Overview
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Director and cast
- Martin Ritt Director
- Cicely Tyson as Rebecca Morgan
- Paul Winfield as Nathan Lee Morgan
- Kevin Hooks as David Lee Morgan
- Taj Mahal as Ike
- Janet MacLachlan as Camille Johnson
- Carmen Mathews as Mrs. Boatwright
- James Best as Sheriff Charlie Young
- Eric Hooks as Earl Morgan
- Yvonne Jarrell as Josie Mae Morgan
- Sylvia Kuumba Williams as Harriet
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Ritt's film must respond to the needs of an entertainment industry, and in its desire to be uplifting, leaves its characters one-dimensional without ensuring that the one dimension is heroic.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
If Sounder, an inteligent enough movie, avoids all the major pitfalls of its type, it also lacks the excitement that may have come from plumbing greater depths and discovering a few tougher, less accessible insights.
Roger Greenspun, New York Times
Fresh
It is one of the most compassionate and truthful of movies, and there's not a level where it doesn't succeed completely.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Painfully honest, unpretentious, and blessedly simple.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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