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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Sounder, this is a quietly observed coming-of-age story about a Black boy finding moral strength and a possible future amid poverty, family pressure, and early-20th-century rural life.
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Why this pick
Its unvarnished, deeply humane attention to a Black working family facing economic hardship and institutional injustice carries the same dignity and emotional directness as Sounder.
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Why this pick
A Depression-era rural drama shaped by daily labor, financial precarity, and compassion across a strained community; it shares Sounder’s patient pace and respect for ordinary resilience.
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Why this pick
Though set in urban Los Angeles, its episodic, neorealist portrait of a loving family worn down by work and scarcity echoes Sounder’s understated tenderness and social honesty.
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Why this pick
This farm-family drama finds tension in the struggle to preserve a home and livelihood, with a similarly earnest focus on parents and children enduring forces larger than themselves.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1933 Louisiana, the Morgans (Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks), a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers, face a serious family crisis in the midst of the Great Depression. Nathan Morgan tries to teach his son David to be a man and survive in difficult times with their dog, Sounder. But Nathan is imprisoned for a year after stealing a ham to feed his starving family. On his way to visit his father, David discovers a school. A kindly but firm teacher named Camille takes him in and teaches him about important African-American figures in history. David becomes desperate to go to school, but when his father is released a maimed man, David must choose between an education that can give him a better life or staying home to support his father.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Rebecca Morgan
Nathan Lee Morgan
David Lee Morgan
Mrs. Rita Boatwright
Guard #1
Ike
Sheriff Charlie Young
Camille Johnson
