Sounder1972
Sounder (1972)
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Cast
as Rebecca Morgan
as Nathan Lee Morgan
as David Lee Morgan
as Camille Johnson
as Mrs. Boatwright
as Ike
as Sheriff Young
as Josie Mae Morgan
as Earl Morgan
as Harriet
as Mr. Perkins
as Judge
as Court Clerk
as Clarence
as Preacher
as Mrs. Clay
Critic Reviews for Sounder
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
Director Martin Ritt soaks us in the heat, the beauty, the racism and the buzzing cicadas of Louisiana.
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.
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.
It is one of the most compassionate and truthful of movies, and there's not a level where it doesn't succeed completely.
Painfully honest, unpretentious, and blessedly simple.
...depicts its central family's life as one of resilient beauty.
Audience Reviews for Sounder
This tale of a poor black family in the post slavery period is a good but not great early attempt to investigate the continuing influence of racism in the deep South. Likely stirring it its time, it has been eclipsed with far better more modern works.
Super Reviewer
good film
Super Reviewer
A great family drama about how shitty it was to be black, poor, and live in Louisiana during the Great Depression. It's not over sentimental and race isn't as big a issue as you would think. Great performances from Winfield and Hooks as father and son.
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