A three-part drama telling the story of a black girl and her family who try to hold onto their land during the Depression.A three-part drama telling the story of a black girl and her family who try to hold onto their land during the Depression.A three-part drama telling the story of a black girl and her family who try to hold onto their land during the Depression.
- Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 2 nominations total
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Charlie Briggs
- Kaleb Wallace
- (as Charles Briggs)
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- Alternate versionsThe original 1978 version of this film ran for almost 4 hours, and was shown over 2 nights in July of 1978. This version resembled the book much more than the current one does. Several scenes in the book, but are not in the current version ARE in the original 1978 cut, such as scenes involving the first day of school, a school bus, and mama getting fired because of Mr. Granger. After the first version was shown, the movie was heavilly edited down, removing all of Part one, exept for certain parts that were abruptly edited into Part 2. Small portions of some of the scenes in the first part (Little Man throwing a book on the ground, Mama putting paper over the inside cover of a textbook, the kids digging a trap for the bus to get stuck in, Mr. Morrison introducing himself) appear in a pre-title sequence, not unlike the kind of introduction for part 2 of a two part TV episode. Also, the final scene in Part one is kept, for it has much to do with the events of Part 2.
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Brilliant Film...How Is It Rated So Low???
No spoilers... brilliant story, brilliant actors, and well worth watching. We live in an era now where quality script writing is hard to find. Over the years it seems that motion pictures have traded substance for high tech cameras and lackluster storylines or regurgitating and repackaging the same stories have been told fifty million times. I'm tired of having to shield my children from films because the directors or producers decided to force feed some sort of agenda into the plot that's has no reason being there. With the way the masses have rated this film you'd think it was Gigli part 3 or something.
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- kingrl-71573
- Mar 21, 2022
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