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Writers (WGA):
Clifton L. Taulbert (book)
Paul W. Cooper (screenplay)
Release Date:
26 January 1996 (USA) more
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A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation. full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins & 2 nominations more
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Too Nice! more (7 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Al Freeman Jr. | ... | Poppa | |
| Phylicia Rashad | ... | Ma Ponk | |
| Leon | ... | Uncle Melvin | |
| Paula Kelly | ... | Ma Pearl | |
| Salli Richardson-Whitfield | ... | Miss Alice (as Salli Richardson) | |
| Anna Maria Horsford | ... | Miss Annie | |
| Bernie Casey | ... | Mr. Walter | |
| Isaac Hayes | ... | Preacher Hurn | |
| Willis Norwood Jr. | ... | Cliff (12 Yrs.) | |
| Karen Malina White | ... | Mary | |
| Damon Hines | ... | Cliff at 16 | |
| Iona Morris | ... | Nila Fontaine | |
| Phill Lewis | ... | Sammy (19 Yrs.) / Narrator | |
| Taj Mahal | ... | Mr. Will | |
| Polly Bergen | ... | Miss Maybry |
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Rated PG for thematic elements including mild violence, language, and sensuality.
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115 min
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narrator: Everyone clung to the idea that if you worked hard, you get a piece of the American dream. more
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Referenced in Phat Girlz (2006) more
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Maybe Tomorrow more
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This was a very nice, scaled down version of how it really was in the Deep South. The movie did not even begin to depict the real horror Blacks faced each day. There was just a hint of the KKK, Jim Crow and the plantation mentality Blacks had to endure. I kept waiting for those historical, explosive events, we all knew to be the law of the land, to explode onto the screen, but it never happened.
Life was unbearable; Blacks were looked upon as animals and treated as such. I walked away from this movie feeling like life was almost a bowl of cherries.
I find it so odd that people are tired of hearing about the Black experience but never get tired of all the holocaust movies. 6 million Jews were slaughtered over a 6 year period (approx) -- hundreds of thousand Blacks were hung, beaten, raped, shot, humiliated and abused to death over a period of 150+ years, not to mention the suicides that took place on the slave ships in route to America. Admittedly, the holocaust was an atrocity, hopefully never to be repeated, while discrimination of Blacks is still a reality. Too bad there are no great movies that tell the Black Plight the way it should be told.