A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Acting
Al Freeman Jr. anchors every frame with grandfatherly gravitas.
Direction
Tim Reid's personal passion project drips with lived authenticity.
Director
Tim Reid
Al Freeman Jr.
Poppa
Phylicia Rashād
Ma Ponk
Paula Kelly
Ma Pearl
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Miss Alice (as Salli Richardson)
Anna Maria Horsford
Miss Annie
Bernie Casey
Mr. Walter
Isaac Hayes
Preacher Hurn
Ray J
Cliff (12 Yrs.) (as Willis Norwood Jr.)
Polly Bergen
Miss Maybry
Taj Mahal
Mr. Will
Leon
Uncle Melvin
Richard Roundtree
Cleve
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Straw Boss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tim Reid financed much of this himself after studios passed, making it one of the few 90s films about Black rural life directed by a Black filmmaker.
Based on Clifton Taulbert's memoir, it captures the 'griot' oral tradition—story as resistance, memory as inheritance.
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