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United States. Canada. Language. English. Box office. $5.6 million [1] Down in the Delta is a 1998 American-Canadian drama film, directed by Maya Angelou (in her only film directing effort) and starring Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle (in her final film appearance before her death), Loretta Devine, and Wesley Snipes.
Dec 25, 1998 · December 25, 1998. 4 min read. There is a moment in Maya Angelou’s “Down in the Delta” when a Chicago woman applies for a job in a supermarket and cannot pass a math test. Turned down, she leaves the store and buys a bottle. Her feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness come through so painfully that we understand, with a surge of empathy ...
Dec 14, 2012 · Alfre Woodard’s `Delta’ not black and white. It started like this. We were talking about her new film “ Down in the Delta,” where Alfre Woodard plays a hard-drinking woman from the Chicago projects who gets a fresh start on her uncle’s farm in the Mississippi Delta. It is a good film, strong and touching, the directorial debut of the ...
Down in The Delta, with a screenplay by Myron Goble, begins with Loretta Sinclair, an undereducated African American woman strung out on drugs and alcohol, raising two children in a three-generational household, and struggling to find a job in rough Chicago. Upset that she cannot answer a single mathematical equation or find a job sweeping or mopping floors at a corner store, she dives deeper ...
Dec 25, 1998 · Parent Movie Reviewby. This film is African-American Maya Angelou’s first attempt at directing a feature film… at the age of 70 and with a paltry $3 million budget. Angelou’s familiarity with the trials of her characters makes this story natural and compelling. A single mom at 16, Angelou doesn’t need to guess what her characters are ...
- Rod Gustafson
Apr 3, 2022 · Maya Angelou’s directorial debut, Down in the Delta (1998) opens in a poor Chicago neighborhood where Rosa Lynn (Mary Alice) does her best to care for her drug-addicted daughter Loretta (Alfre Woodard). Vexed by Loretta’s addiction and neglect of her children – Thomas (Mpho Koaho) and Tracy (Kulani Hassen) – Rosa Lynn decides to send ...
Dec 26, 2023 · Consumed by fears of inner-city violence and the traumatic effects of the crack epidemic, “Down in the Delta” didn’t lead to a career in filmmaking for the writer Maya Angelou. Instead, 25 years later, the inspiring yet uniquely flawed film remains her lone directorial feature. Though a Black fantasy unbound by a specific place and time, it’s a film whose conversations with the ...
