The River Niger
Some rivers can't be dammed...some people won't be broken.
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The River Niger
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 7, 2000
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Platinum Disc
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson & Louis Gossett, Jr. | |
| Performer: | Roger E. Mosley, Hilda Haynes, Theodore Wilson, Glynn Turman & Jonelle Allen | |
| Directed by | Krishna Shah | |
| Edited by | Irving Lerner | |
| Composition by | War | |
| Cinematography by | Michael D. Margulies | |
| Produced by | Sidney Beckerman |
Entertainment Reviews:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 88
The play was award-winning, but as a film, The River Niger is a washout.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 2/4 --
The River Niger, a film about a series of crises in an American black family, has good intentions and several very well-acted scenes. But its direction is a mess.
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Chicago Sun-Times
A touching family drama, an exploration of black identity and a moving parable about love
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Spirituality and Practice
Product Description:
A poetry-spouting house painter, his cancer stricken wife and the family doctor deal with life in the inner city.
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Product Info
- UPC: 096009003098
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