Some rivers can't be dammed...some people won't be broken.
7.3
105 min
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
Name | Character | Team | |
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James Earl Jones | Johnny Williams | Unowned | |
Cicely Tyson | Mattie Williams | Unowned | |
Louis Gossett Jr. | Dr. Dudley Stanton | Unowned | |
Glynn Turman | Jeff Williams | Goutbreak | |
Jonelle Allen | Ann Vanderguild | Unowned | |
Roger E. Mosley | Big Moe Hayes | Unowned | |
Ralph Wilcox | Al | Unowned | |
Teddy Wilson | Chips | Unowned | |
Charles Weldon | Skeeter | Unowned | |
Shirley Jo Finney | Gail | Unowned | |
Hilda Haynes | Wilhelmina Geneva Brow | Unowned | |
Ed Crick | White Police Lieutenant | Unowned | |
Tony Burton | Black Policeman | Unowned | |
Zakes Mokae | Unowned |