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Down in the Delta (1998)Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi... See full summary » Director:Maya AngelouWriter:Myron Goble |
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Loretta Sinclair
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Al Freeman Jr. | ... |
Earl Sinclair
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Annie Sinclair
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Mary Alice | ... |
Rosa Lynn Sinclair
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Zenia
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Monica Sinclair
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Thomas Sinclair
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Justin Lord | ... |
Dr. Rainey
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Kulani Hassen | ... |
Tracy Sinclair
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Marco
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Colleen Williams | ... |
Tourist Woman
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Richard Blackburn | ... |
Tourist Man
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Philip Akin | ... |
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Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also telling them about the generations of their family, the Sinclairs, dating back to their time in slavery before the the Civil War. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
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Sometimes, the last place you expected to be is the one place you've always belonged...Genres:
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Daroma La'Delta See more »Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaBox Office
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$1,636,678 (USA) (27 December 1998) (416 Screens)Gross:
$5,662,985 (USA) (21 February 1999)Company Credits
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Earl Sinclair: Oh, yeah? Maybe somethin' come back if she more of ya.
Will Sinclair: Dad, how many times we got to talk about this? I'm not moving back to Mississippi.
Earl Sinclair: But your roots are here.
Will Sinclair: You taught me that my roots are here.
Will Sinclair: [pause, looks at the checkerboard] Whose move is it? You always do this. Why do you always start talking and then you...
Earl Sinclair: Your move.
[chuckles]
Earl Sinclair: Your move!
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Lyrics and Music by Michelle Lanchester
Performed by Sweet Honey In The Rock
Published by Mikkel Music (EMI)
Courtesy of EarthBeast Records See more »
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Anachronisms: The bus runs, in two scenes, on narrow gravel roads. No scheduled bus line anywhere between Chicago and Mississippi would have run on a gravel road since, maybe, the 1930s. See more »Quotes
Will Sinclair: I don't know how she's going to recognize me. She thinks somebody else is her own dead mother.Earl Sinclair: Oh, yeah? Maybe somethin' come back if she more of ya.
Will Sinclair: Dad, how many times we got to talk about this? I'm not moving back to Mississippi.
Earl Sinclair: But your roots are here.
Will Sinclair: You taught me that my roots are here.
Will Sinclair: [pause, looks at the checkerboard] Whose move is it? You always do this. Why do you always start talking and then you...
Earl Sinclair: Your move.
[chuckles]
Earl Sinclair: Your move!
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"Patchwork Quilt"Lyrics and Music by Michelle Lanchester
Performed by Sweet Honey In The Rock
Published by Mikkel Music (EMI)
Courtesy of EarthBeast Records See more »
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