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About
Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings.
Cast
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Robert Hooks
Nate Simmons
C
Cicely Tyson
Priscilla Simmons
K
Kevin Hooks
Junior
B
Beah Richards
Grandma
L
Lincoln Kilpatrick
Joe Mayfield
M
Mary Alice
Helen Mayfield
E
Edward Binns
Mr. Claypool
S
Sonny Jim Gaines
Trunk
M
Minnie Gentry
Aunt Velvet
P
Philip Wende
Sheriff
A
Albert B. Cooper IV
Stand-in (uncredited)
