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Sounder
Directed by
Martin Ritt
G
1972
1h 45m
Family
,
Drama
7.5
91%
79%
7.5
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The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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Cast of Sounder
Cicely Tyson
Rebecca Morgan
Paul Winfield
Nathan Lee Morgan
Kevin Hooks
David Lee Morgan
Taj Mahal
Ike / Original Music Composer
Janet MacLachlan
Camille Johnson
Carmen Mathews
Mrs. Boatwright
James Best
Sheriff Charlie Young
Eric Hooks
Earl Morgan
Yvonne Jarrell
Josie Mae Morgan
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
Wagon Driver
Jerry Leggio
Guard #1
Sounder Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Ritt never pushes a moment too hard or too far -- the movie earns every emotion we feel. And I think it will move audiences -- move them truly, that is -- as few films ever have.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...depicts its central family's life as one of resilient beauty.
Cambridge Day
Tom Meek
A great awakening and lesson for kids here...
Baltimore Afro-American
Frederick I. Douglas
It is something special.
Los Angeles Free Press
Dick Lochte
Sounder, its oddly non-alluring title notwithstanding, is as close to a perfect film as we're likely to get these days.
Common Sense Media
Nancy Davis Kho
Affecting update of the coming-of-age classic.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Honest and touching, Martin Ritt's Oscar-nominated Sounder, a Depression-era saga, does proud the American family and the American family movie genre.
TV Guide
Heartbreaking and intelligent.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Director Martin Ritt soaks us in the heat, the beauty, the racism and the buzzing cicadas of Louisiana.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A very fine unpretentious, heartwarming and uplifting family drama about a Deep South black sharecropper family trying to survive during the Depression.
New York Times
Roger Greenspun
If Sounder, an inteligent enough movie, avoids all the major pitfalls of its type, it also lacks the excitement that may have come from plumbing greater depths and discovering a few tougher, less accessible insights.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is one of the most compassionate and truthful of movies, and there's not a level where it doesn't succeed completely.
Matinee Magazine
Chuck Rudolph
A masterwork from director Martin Ritt. Movies are rarely this empathetic.
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
Another fine example of Martin Ritt's earthy southern dramas
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Painfully honest, unpretentious, and blessedly simple.
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