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The Piano Lesson

The Piano Lesson

TV-PG1995Drama
Synopsis
Boy Willie (Charles Dutton), a sharecropper, travels to Pittsburgh in the 1930s hoping that his sister, Berniece Charles (Alfre Woodard), will let him have the piano that their enslaved uncle engraved in pre--Civil War Mississippi. Willie hopes to parlay proceeds from selling the instrument into ownership of the land his uncle once worked. But when Berniece has other ideas, it becomes clear that the piano represents very different things to the siblings.
Cast
Charles Dutton, Alfre Woodard, Carl Gordon, Tommy Hollis, Lou Myers, Courtney Vance, Zelda Harris, Rosalyn Coleman, Tommy La Fitte
Rating
TV-PGAdult Situations
Genres
Drama

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