Sounder [videorecording] / Jaffe/Braunstein Films Ltd. ; Rock Creek Entertainment ; Touchstone Television ; producers, Clara George, Kevin Hooks ; teleplay writer, Bill Cain ; director, Kevin Hooks.
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[videorecording] /
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
Information from pre-release promotional materials; release date: June 24, 2003. Based on the book by William H. Armstrong. Carl Lumbly, Suzzanne Douglass, Daniel Lee Robertson III, Peter MacNeill, Bill Lake, Paul Winfield, Marcus Johnson, Ashley Archer, Joshua Watkis.
Summary:
This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help (and sometimes hindrance) of various people along the road.
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