Film

Down in the Delta

1998 · 1h 52m · Drama

Sometimes, the last place you expected to be is the one place you've always belonged...

IMDb

6.9

Rotten Tomatoes

76%

Metacritic

73

A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.

Alfre Woodard

Loretta Sinclair

Al Freeman Jr.

Earl Sinclair

Esther Rolle

Annie Sinclair

Mary Alice

Rosa Lynn Sinclair

Loretta Devine

Zenia

Wesley Snipes

Will Sinclair

Mpho Koaho

Thomas

Anne-Marie Johnson

Monica

Justin Lord

Dr. Rainey

Richard Yearwood

Marco

Sandra Caldwell

Volunteer

Colleen Williams

Tourist Woman

Richard Blackburn

Tourist Man

Philip Akin

Manager

Mary Fallick

Drug Addict

Sandi Ross

Pawnbroker

• Maya AngelouDirector
• Myron GobleWriter
• Wesley SnipesProducer
• Reuben CannonProducer
• Rick RosenbergProducer
• Victor McGauleyProducer
• Robert W. ChristiansenProducer
• William WagesDirector of Photography
• Stanley ClarkeOriginal Music Composer
• Nancy RichardsonEditor

Release date

December 25, 1998

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 52m

Revenue

$5,672,903

Genres

Drama

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