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Overview

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6.8/10   758 votes
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Director:
Maya Angelou
Writer (WGA):
Myron Goble (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
25 December 1998 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 8 nominations more
User Comments:
a touching poignant movie more

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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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for drug related material.
Runtime:
112 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Company:
Amen Ra Films more

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Goofs:
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. 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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Movie Connections:
Features "The Bullwinkle Show" (1961) more
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Family more

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a touching poignant movie, 19 March 2000
10/10
Author: queennbm from USA

Although ignored at the box-office, this movie was beautiful. A must see by all black women. It was a movie that chronicled a woman's life that is similar to so many today. It shows how family is the foundation of happy lives. This movie was very moving for me. Not to mention the wonderful absence of profanity, sex and violence.

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