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Autism Major 
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TITLE |
Down
in the Delta (1998) |
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DISABILITY |
Alcoholism
Alzheimers Autism Drug Addiction |
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NOTES |
Alfre
Woodward gets top billing at last. She's a wonderful |
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She plays an
alcholic who also does drugs and neglects her |
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daughter who
is autistic. She says there is no work for her |
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and when she
tries for a job as a cashier she can't do the |
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Slowly
sinking in a Chicago ghetto her mother persuades her |
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to go to
Mississippi and stay with her uncle. There her life and that of her
children begins to improve. Her aunt has |
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This is a
gentle story suffused with tradition though it's |
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perhaps too
symbolic when it touches on the subjects of roots and history.
But it does have the casual quality of a good TV film. The
flashbacks are not such a good idea and don't illuminate
more than words. Woodward is trying to play someone who
is not too bright which goes against her natural
effervescence. |
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Snipes
produced this film but you don't see him for an hour. |
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Notes
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