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A.F.I./Oscars List (DVDs I Own) (727 items)
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Description: Martin Ritt (Hud) directed this wonderful 1972 drama about a family of African American sharecroppers in rural Louisiana during the Great Depression. When the father is sent to jail for stealing food to feed his family, the others regroup in order to survive. Cicely Tyson brings grace and strength to her role, and director Martin Ritt pushes the story well past nostalgia toward an understated but obvious look at burgeoning self-determination among blacks (even the roots of future militancy). If Ritt, a white director, can't get any closer to the characters' experience than he already does, he is still a fine storyteller and this ... (more)
Manufacturer: Uav Corporation
Release date: 13 January 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0084296403387 UPC: 084296403387
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