Sounder

Sounder
by Kevin Hooks

Sounder
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Actor: Bill Lake, Carl Lumbly, Daniel Lee Robertson III, Peter MacNeill, Suzzanne Douglass
Director: Kevin Hooks
Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-24
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video

DVD Reviews of Sounder

DVD Review: Sounder Movie Review
Summary: 5 Stars

[...]
This an older children's literature book. It is timeless and this movie is faithful to the book. It is one that will have students spellbound and asking the age old question of WHY? Just as we do now. I can highly recommend it ... My sixth graders loved it ... LHL

DVD Review: Not as good as the ORIGINAL - as is for most things in LIFE
Summary: 4 Stars

There is something authentic about the original that this new version lacks. I remember being a child in school watching the Cicely Tyson & Paul Winfield classic, and I'm just being honest, but nothing beats the original. If you're going to watch the modern remake, do yourself the favor and enjoy the classic too! It's one-of-a-kind :)

DVD Review: I loved it!
Summary: 5 Stars

Even though this production was my cousin, Daniel Lee Robertson's first movie, I'm not going to be biased. I loved it!!!

Congrats Dan Dan!

Description of Sounder

From the classic book by William H. Armstrong comes Disney's all-new production of SOUNDER, an uplifting story of one boy's faith, strength, and dogged determination. As Boy's (Daniel Lee Robertson III) family faces the daily struggles of Depression-era sharecroppers, a loyal coonhound named Sounder becomes their only real friend. Food is scarce, and nightly hunting trips offer little relief. In an act of desperation, Father steals to feed his hungry family. When Father is convicted, it triggers Boy's courageous journey to find him in the labor camps. Boy comes a long way to discover much more -- a friendly teacher, a hunger to read, and a better life.
In a quirk of film history, this new version of the 1972 classic is directed by Kevin Hooks--who played the central role of the sharecropper's son in the original. That's a nice full circle, although it leaves unanswered a basic question: why bother remaking a movie that got it right the first time? The story is simplicity: a black family in the Depression suffers when the father is arrested for stealing a ham. The punishment? Five years, hard labor. Sounder has an under-rehearsed, rushed quality common to low-budget TV pictures, although Carl Lumbly brings a powerful presence to the role of the father. (That's Paul Winfield, the star of the original, as the teacher who befriends the son.) The shortcomings may not matter much to the young audiences Disney targets, as they'll probably be too busy rooting for the return of the dog that gives the movie its name. --Robert Horton

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