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.
Charles Weldon, Cicely Tyson, Ed Crick, Glynn Turman, Hilda Haynes, James Earl Jones, Jonelle Allen, Louis Gossett Jr, Ralph Wilcox, Roger E Mosley, Shirley Jo Finney, Teddy Wilson, Tony Burton, Zakes Mokae
Drama
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