Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry | 
| Director: Jack Smight
Actors: Claudia Mcneil, Janet Maclachlan, Robert Christian, Larry B. Scott, Roy Poole
Studio: Live / Artisan
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 8448
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302622867
UPC: 012236630937
EAN: 9786302622867
ASIN: 6302622867
Theatrical Release Date: June 2, 1978
Release Date: January 12, 1999
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 Deserves a big, fat zero! January 21, 2006
Scott Phoenix (Newberg, OR USA)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
This movie was made by someone on a diet of white bread and packaged vegetables - bland, blander, blandest. Whereas the book is moving, if a bit over-reliant upon the narrator Cassie overhearing everything and all the children getting into the action, yet again, the movie makes you want to yell obscenities. One example will do. The book is set in the Depression-era Deep South, rural Mississippi - it didn't get any worse for blacks - and the sharecroppers are desperately poor. Yet the characters all look as though they're just shopped off the rack at the country store. There's no fire, no emotion, no tension.
I urge another attempt at a movie of this book because it could be outstanding - the plot is there for people to do something wonderful.
 Not What I Hoped It Would Be February 5, 2000
T. Martz (Columbia, Illinois)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I wish I could get ahold of the original uncut version of this. In the editing process, events have been placed in the wrong order and much of the emotionalism we should feel has been eliminated. My students are very disappointed in the film adaptation. It does not do the book justice at all. Is there any way to find the original?
How Disappointing :-( November 28, 2003
Juli Anne Harkins (Silver Spring, MD United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
My fourth-grader and I read this wonderful book together and I hyped her on watching this movie, which came out when I was in the fourth grade in the seventies. How disappointing! What a rip-off! This video takes edited scenes as a montage at the beginning and then starts in the middle of the story. Entire scenes critical to character development and plot are lost--the beautiful relationship between the siblings, Stacie's relationship to TJ, how the Logans got their land and why they were so different than the other sharecropping families, the role of Mama and Big Ma in keeping the family together, etc. You'd be lost watching this movie if you hadn't read the book. My daughter and I were eagerly awaiting the scene when Cassie gets her revenge on Lillian Jean, which is shown only as a ending montage of scenes. How unfortunate--with DVDs out now, there's no reason for this movie not to be available in its entirety. I should have heeded the warnings of the other Amazon reviewers!
Roll of Thunder Review April 2, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Our class read the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. After that we watched the movie in class. We had to write an Essay about both the movie and the book. We would not recomend this film because the plot is out of order and the characters are not portrayed well. We would reccomend reading the Newberry Award winning book instead.
 It was almost as good as the book , but not as detailed March 7, 2000
Deiria Brice (United States)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I loved the book and the movie. It shows how a family w/ not alot of money can/could survive. It also shows how young children have to listen to all the racism, and also be abused because of the wrong skin color. It shows to be strong and that no matter what someone thinks of you, does not matter. What matters is that you a proud of who you are.
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