Sounder

Name: Sounder
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: August 18, 1972
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Carmen Mathews, Cicely Tyson, Eric Hooks, James Best, Kevin Hooks

1972

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: August 18, 1972 | G

Starring: Carmen Mathews, Cicely Tyson, Eric Hooks, James Best, Kevin Hooks, Paul Winfield, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Taj Mahal, Teddy Airhart, Yvonne Jarrell

Summary: 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.

Director: Martin Ritt

Genre(s): Drama, Family

Rating: G

Runtime: 105 min

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Roger Ebert

Sounder is a story simply told and universally moving. It is one of the most compassionate and truthful of movies, and there's not a level where it doesn't succeed completely. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Extraordinarily simple, yet deeply, emotionally rich.

Dave Kehr

Moving without being mawkish, charming without being coy. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Sounder is one of the truest examples of a family film ever made and a triumph for all concerned. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Ritt's film must respond to the needs of an entertainment industry, and in its desire to be uplifting, leaves its characters one-dimensional without ensuring that the one dimension is heroic. Read full review

Roger Greenspun

And if Sounder, an intelligent 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. Read full review

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