The Learning Tree Rating: Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Don Taylor Richard Johnson Stephen Rea Don Gordon Complete Cast (8 total)

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Compare this with "To Kill a Mockingbird"
I rank this right up there with "To Kill a Mockingbird"
(which, I admit, I haven't watched for a few years).
I suspect this film is better at showing what life was like for
Blacks and has a better balanced cast of good, bad, and mixed
characters. This probably didn't catch on as much since the
sex was less politically correct for the time (e.g., white boy
gets black girl pregnant), there are onscreen shootings, and
there is minor onscreen nudity.
Extremely appropriate for high schoolers and up interested
in a strongly moving view of the black experience by a very
major artist and writer (Parks).

A true classic in African American cinema.
The story was based off of Gordon Parks real life story. A very good depiction of life in the early part of the century.

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