
78 minutes
9/14/1976
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.

Robert Hooks
as Nate Simmons

Cicely Tyson
as Priscilla Simmons

Kevin Hooks
as Junior
Eric Hooks
as Highpockets

Beah Richards
as Grandma

Lincoln Kilpatrick
as Joe Mayfield

Mary Alice
as Helen Mayfield

Edward Binns
as Mr. Claypool
Sonny Jim Gaines
as Trunk

Minnie Gentry
as Aunt Velvet
Tia Rance
as Darlene
Philip Wende
as Sheriff
Albert B. Cooper IV
as Stand-in (uncredited)