SummaryThe oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Directed By:Martin Ritt
Written By:Lonne Elder III, William H. Armstrong
Sounder
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Generally Favorable
80
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7.8
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
67% Positive
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100
Sounder is a story simply told and universally moving. It is one of the most compassionate and truthful of movies, and there's not a level where it doesn't succeed completely.
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Extraordinarily simple, yet deeply, emotionally rich.
88
Moving without being mawkish, charming without being coy.
75
Sounder is one of the truest examples of a family film ever made and a triumph for all concerned.
50
Ritt's film must respond to the needs of an entertainment industry, and in its desire to be uplifting, leaves its characters one-dimensional without ensuring that the one dimension is heroic.
50
And if Sounder, an intelligent enough movie, avoids all the major pitfalls of its type, it also lacks the excitement that may have come from plumbing greater depths and discovering a few tougher, less accessible insights.
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