First-Time Viewing

Cane River

Release Date:October 14, 1982

Running Time:104 min

Genres:Drama, Romance

Director

Cast

Tommye Myrick Richard Romain Barbara Tasker Ilunga Adell Lloyd La Cour Carol Sutton Stephen Severin Noray Francis Lolis Edward Elie Kelli Rene Carpenter Marie Dupre Maurice Harrell

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the darker-skinned, more disenfranchised families of the area.

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