The Piano Lesson (Hallmark Hall of Fame) [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Charles S. Dutton Alfre Woodard Carl Gordon Tommy Hollis Lou Myers
	Video by:	Hallmark
	Sales Rank:	165900

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Actor(s):
Charles S. Dutton
Alfre Woodard
Carl Gordon
Tommy Hollis
Lou Myers

Creators:
August Wilson (Producer)
August Wilson (Writer)
Brent Shields (Producer)
Craig Anderson (Producer)
Richard Welsh (Producer)
Robert Bennett Steinhauer (Producer)
Robert Huddleston (Producer)

Director(s):
Lloyd Richards

Recording label: Hallmark
EAN: 9781574922813
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 1574922815
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1999-01-12
Universal product code (UPC): 707729752134
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

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The only one of August Wilson's plays to be filmed (and for television, at that), this 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winner is an amazing piece of work. Adapted by Wilson and directed by Lloyd Richards, who staged it on Broadway, the play deals not just with racism and its effects but with the ongoing legacy and curse of slavery on modern blacks. Set in 1920s Pittsburgh, the story deals with the arrival of Boy Willie (Charles Dutton) from Mississippi, to claim a family heirloom from his sister Berniece (Alfre Woodard): the piano, carved by their ancestors with symbols of slavery. He wants to sell it to buy the land his grandfather worked as a slave; Berniece refuses to give it up because it represents a horrifying episode from the family's past. Add in ghosts, superb performances, and Wilson's poetically charged writing, and you have a startlingly solid piece of theater that works well as a film. --Marshall Fine

Running time: 95 minutes