Plot Summary
Martin Ritt's big-screen adaptation of William H. Armstrong's Newberry Award winning novel, Sounder stars Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks as a black family struggling through life in depression-era Louisiana. The Morgan family is poor, but close. Young son David (Hooks) enjoys hunting with his father Nathan (Paul Winfield) and his trusted dog Sounder. Eventually, they fall on such rough times that Nathan steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, but he is arrested and sentenced to a work camp. Mother Rebecca (Tyson) realizes that David is now responsible for taking care of the family. He sets out to locate where his father is being held, and becomes involved in a school for black children where he learns facts that give him a new level of self-esteem. Sounder was nominated for a variety of Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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88%- Reviews Counted: 17
- Fresh: 15
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 7.7/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: It is one of the most compassionate and truthful of movies, and there's not a level where it doesn't succeed completely.
Fresh: Painfully honest, unpretentious, and blessedly simple.
Fresh: Director Martin Ritt soaks us in the heat, the beauty, the racism and the buzzing cicadas of Louisiana.
Customer Reviews
I hope this is the good one.
Call me crazy, but in my reading class, we watched a very good sounder movie (hopefully this one.) Then, in my homeroom class, we watched an absolutely TERRIBLE ONE, so I hope this one is the better version of the movie.
Good
I saw this in my history class....
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