Product Details

• Actors: Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr., Glynn Turman, Jonelle Allen
• Directors: Krishna Shah
• Writers: Joseph A. Walker
• Producers: Sidney Beckerman
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Tgg Direct
• DVD Release Date: January 1, 2003
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005QJI0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,960 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The River Niger" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What's wrong with these people?, February 3, 2005

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Huey Newton - See all my reviews

This review is from: River Niger (DVD)

I find it hard to believe those pitiful less that 5-star reviews of this move. Obviously it just went over their heads. This movie is absolutely awsome!! From the opening credits with the backdrop music by the legenday soul/rock/funk band WAR to the very end when Cicily Tyson urges the youths to not screw up what had been accomplished by Daddy Johnny (James Earl Jones) this movie screams to the heart. Either those reviewers have no clue as to what it is like to struggle and live in a ghetto or they could just simply care less. Ignorant. Speaking on things they have no clue about. Anyone who wants a slice of a dream; A beautiful, poetic dream, needs to see this movie. Is it a hollywood masterpiece, filled with explosions, nudity, special effects, and glamor people? No. It is a gut-bucket, poetry, and music-laced ride that will certainly warm the African-American soul and any others who can comprhend where we are coming from.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling, December 24, 2000

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Roy Williams (College Pk, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The River Niger [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Not often will you find such Great actors as Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett, James Earl Jones, Glynn Turman ant Teddy Wilson in the same movie....A compelling story, set at the end of the Civil Rights Era, and the resulting transition of the leftover radicals..With the poetry of Langston Hughes, and a rocking soundtrack By War...This Is one of the best movies you can see...

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHERE HOPE AND DREAMS COME AT A HIGH PRICE, September 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The River Niger (DVD)

Starring James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson and Louis Gossett., Jr.

James Earl Jones is riveting, and Cicely Tyson is fantastic in this wonderful adaptation of the Tony award-winning play about life in the ghetto. Realistic emotions and believable characters make for an incredible and moving experience for all.