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Mississippi River | Farm
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Best Film | 1999
Best Director | 1999 | Maya
Best Actress | 1999 | Alfre
Best Soundtrack | 1999
Best Female Lead | 1999 | Alfre
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture | 1999 | Alfre
Outstanding Motion Picture | 1999
Best Performance in a Feature Film Young Actress Age Ten or Under | 1999
Box Office Collection 5,672,903 USD
This was Esther Rolle's final performance, before she died.
Alfre Woodard shares the same birthday as actress Esther Rolle on November 8th
While the Chicago scenes were filmed in Toronto, there's no information as to where the small-town country scenes were filmed.
This film is the second one in which Alfre Woodard plays a single mother with a child who doesn't speak (The other film being Scrooged, 1988).
"Will Sinclair: I don't know how she's going to recognize me. She thinks somebody else is her own dead mother. Earl Sinclair: Oh, yeah? Maybe somethin' come back if she more of ya. Will Sinclair: Dad, how many times we got to talk about this? I'm not moving back to Mississippi. Earl Sinclair: But your roots are here. Will Sinclair: You taught me that my roots are here. Will Sinclair: [pause, looks at the checkerboard] Whose move is it? You always do this. Why do you always start talking and then you... Earl Sinclair: Your move. [chuckles] Earl Sinclair: Your move!"
