SOUNDER is a story simply told and universally moving. It is one of the most compassionate and truthful of movies, and there's not a level where it doesn't succeed completely. It's one of those rare films that can communicate fully to a child of nine or ten, and yet contains depths and subtleties to engross any adult. The story is so simple because it involves, not so much what people do, but how they change and grow. Not a lot happens on the action level, but there's tremendous psychological movement in SOUNDER, and hardly ever do movies create characters who are so full and real, and relationships that are so loving

Excerpt from Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun Times located HERE

Painfully honest, unpretentious, and blessedly simple, Martin Ritt's 1972 portrait of a black family trying to survive the Depression, the infinite cruelties of Louisiana sharecropping, and the pain of separation is moving without being mawkish, charming without being coy. Not the emotional blockbuster the PR department of 20th Century-Fox would have had it, the film is nevertheless rewarding and quietly powerful--with fine performances from Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks.

Excerpt from Dave Kehr at the Chicago Reader located HERE