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- 2001
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 29 m
- 2001
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 29 m
Summary This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district.
Directed By: Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles
- 2001
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 29 m
- 2001
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 29 m
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
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2.2
Summary This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district.
Directed By: Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
78
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
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0% Negative
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The balance between feeling and distance is never a contradiction here but, rather, the dynamic that makes this film an especially humanistic entry in the Maysles canon.
Its simple, straightforward storytelling makes mincemeat of the idea that, gee, if these people just worked a little harder and got motivated, they, too, could get a piece of the American Dream.
An exemplary work of cinéma vérité that allows its subjects to speak for themselves, traffics neither in pity nor in political grandstanding.
Demonstrates that sometimes letting subjects and the facts speak for themselves can be quietly devastating.
Froemke and Dickson's film opens a window onto rural poverty so dire it's almost inconceivable that it exists in 21st-century America.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
2.2
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
2.2
20% Positive
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Production Company
Home Box Office (HBO),
Maysles Films
Release Date Jun 22, 2001
Duration 1 h 29 m
Genres
Tagline Somebody's got to believe that things are going to get better...
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
