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Release date: 04/14/1976
Popularity: 3
Original language: EN
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The River Niger
Some rivers can't be dammed...some people won't be broken.
7
Drama
Overview
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.