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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.
1933, Lansdowne Parish, Louisiana. The Morgans - mother and father Rebecca and Nathan Lee, and their three children David Lee, Josie Mae and Earl - are a loving, black, poor sharecropping family, generally well liked in their community. Nathan Lee realizes that especially during the lean non-cropping times, his family relies on him to put food on the table in the form of what, with the help of the familys faithful hound Sounder, he is able to hunt generally in terms of small game. Nathans ability to provide that food has been difficult of late. When Nathan is caught, charged, convicted and sentenced to one year hard labor for stealing food for his family, David Lee is forced to assume the male head of the family responsibility, including anything having to do with his father, all without Sounder who has not returned after being injured. Through it all, David Lee is torn between his responsibility to the family versus his thirst for a formal education especially when he discovers there is much about black American history he doesnt know. Being pulled in both directions becomes even more pointed with the return home of Nathan Lee.
Cicely Tyson
Rebecca
Paul Winfield
Nathan Lee
Kevin Hooks
David Lee
Carmen Mathews
Mrs. Boatwright
Taj Mahal
Ike
James Best
Sheriff Young
Eric Hooks
Earl
Yvonne Jarrell
Josie Mae
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Harriet
Teddy Airhart
Mr. Perkins
Richard Durham
Perkins' Foreman
Wendell Brumfield
Deputy #1
Al Bankston
Deputy #2
Myrl Sharkey
Teacher
Inez Durham
Court Clerk
William T. Bennett
Judge
Thomas N. Phillips
Pastor
Carl Braser
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