Sounder

  • Drama
9/24/1972
105
G

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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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    After an energetic but fruitless coon hunt, Nathan (Paul Winfield) returns home to a family with his young son David (Kevin Hooks) and some empty bellies. They are a close and loving bunch and Nathan knows that nothing is likely to improve until the cropping season starts - but that is still some months away. Then he goes and gets himself imprisoned for stealing food and that leaves his wife Rebecca (Cicely Tyson) and the children to eke what they can and deal with the planting whilst he does twelve months hard labour. It doesnt help their morale that they dont even know where he has been detained, and so David with the help of their kindly neighbour Miss Boatwright (Carmen Matthews) sets about trying to track him down and make a contact th...

    July 5, 2025

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