An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
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James Earl Jones as Johnny Williams
Cicely Tyson as Mattie Williams
Louis Gossett Jr. as Dr. Dudley Stanton
Glynn Turman as Jeff Williams
Jonelle Allen as Ann Vanderguild
Roger E. Mosley as Big Moe Hayes
Ralph Wilcox as Al
Teddy Wilson as Chips
Charles Weldon as Skeeter
Shirley Jo Finney as Gail
Hilda Haynes as Wilhelmina Geneva Brow
Ed Crick as White Police Lieutenant
Tony Burton as Black Policeman
Zakes Mokae as
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