Cane River

Cane River

6.5IMDb Score
Released:1982-10-14
Duration:104 min
Director:Horace B. Jenkins
Actors:Tommye Myrick, Richard Romain, Barbara Tasker, Ilunga Adell, Lloyd La Cour
Production:ZDF, Oscilloscope

Overview:

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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