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Down in the Delta (1998)
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Writer (WGA):
Myron Goble (written by)
Release Date:
25 December 1998 (USA)
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Tagline:
Sometimes, the last place you expected to be is the one place you've always belonged...
Plot:
Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city...
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Restaurant
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Slavery
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Kindness
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Pawnbroker
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2 wins
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8 nominations
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User Comments:
Uplifting in the Delta
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alfre Woodard | ... | Loretta Sinclair |
 | Al Freeman Jr. | ... | Earl Sinclair |
| Esther Rolle | ... | Annie Sinclair |
| Mary Alice | ... | Rosa Lynn Sinclair |
 | Loretta Devine | ... | Zenia |
| Anne-Marie Johnson | ... | Monica Sinclair |
| Mpho Koaho | ... | Thomas Sinclair |
| Justin Lord | ... | Dr. Rainey |
 | Wesley Snipes | ... | Will Sinclair |
| Kulani Hassen | ... | Tracy Sinclair |
 | Richard Yearwood | ... | Marco |
 | Sandra Caldwell | ... | Volunteer |
| Colleen Williams | ... | Tourist Woman |
| Richard Blackburn | ... | Tourist Man |
| Philip Akin | ... | Manager |
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Rated PG-13 for drug related material.
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112 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Continuity: When Rosa Lynn Sinclair retrieves the letter from Earl Sinclair in her mailbox, the number on the box (her apartment number) is 817. On the letter it is addressed to apartment #5.
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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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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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Movie Connections:
Features "The Bullwinkle Show" (1961)
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Soundtrack:
There is a Balm In Gilead
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Al Freeman Jr. is one of the greatest actors of our time. This movie proved it.In fact everyone from this fine gentleman and little Kulani were all in fine form. I also enjoyed the fact that the young man in the story came from the inner city and his grandmother helped raise him so he was polite and caring. The role of Alfre found herself because of the love of her family not a man. The only problem with the movie was the presence of Nathan (sloppy symbolism) and the heavy-handed ending. And why was Anne-Marie Johnson so angry (very contrived). Maya needed some help in the editing room too! (Fades and black-outs were too long.) The movie had many messages about family that were dear to my heart.