Storyline

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 journey becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey, he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.—Ed Cannon

Plot Keywords

coming of age, family relationships, wound, traveling, social injustice, shootout, sheriff, search, school, reverend, racist, homelessness, first part, classroom, teacher student relationship, student, black american, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship

Short Review

Director Martin Ritt soaks us in the heat, the beauty, the racism and the buzzing cicadas of Louisiana.

Trailer

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