Sounder
Year | 1972 |
Starring | Carmen Mathews, Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks, Paul Winfield |
Director(s) | Martin Ritt |
Rating | G |
Genre(s) | Drama |
Runtime | 105 min |
Teenager David Morgan is part of a hard-working, loving African American sharecropper family in 1933 Louisiana. David finds a stray dog and names him Sounder, because he likes to bark and make his own “sound.” The family faces continual struggles and his father, at his wit’s end, steals a ham to put food on the table. He is arrested and taken to jail, while his family struggles to find news of him and pray for his return.