Down in the Delta (1998)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Maya Angelou

Writer (WGA):

Myron Goble (written by)

Release Date:

25 December 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

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...

Plot Keywords:

Restaurant | Slavery | Doctor | Kindness | Pawnbroker

Awards:

2 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

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

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for drug related material.

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | USA:PG-13 | Germany:6

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Amen Ra Films

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.

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!

Movie Connections:

Features "The Bullwinkle Show" (1961)

Soundtrack:

Family

a touching poignant movie

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.