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Runtime
105 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
6.42
Director
Martin Ritt
Writers
Lonne Elder III

Sounder

1972 Rated G · ⭐ 7.4 · Votes: 38
The Morgans a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933 face a serious family crisis when the husband and father Nathan Lee Morgan is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months the wife and mother Rebecca Morgan sends the oldest son who is about 11 years old to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.

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