Fielder Cook
Director
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Genres: Biography, Drama, TV Movie
Keywords: tmdb.trauma, tmdb.racism, tmdb.based-on-memoir-or-autobiography, tmdb.childhood, mdblist.imdb-tv-movie, imdb.teleplay-adapted-by-author, imdb.trauma + 38 more, imdb.childhood, imdb.child-abuse, imdb.voice-over-narration, imdb.family-relationships, imdb.violence, imdb.st-louis-missouri, imdb.sexism, imdb.racism, imdb.loneliness, imdb.divorced-parents, imdb.child-molestation, imdb.black-woman, imdb.arkansas, imdb.uncle-niece-relationship, imdb.mother-daughter-relationship, imdb.father-daughter-relationship, imdb.boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, imdb.coming-of-age, imdb.sexual-abuse, imdb.child-rape, imdb.race-relations, imdb.great-depression, imdb.compassion, imdb.bigot, imdb.african-american, imdb.train, imdb.rape, imdb.grandmother-granddaughter-relationship, imdb.church, imdb.brother-sister-relationship, imdb.bathtub, imdb.based-on-autobiography, imdb.1940s, imdb.1930s, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.offscreen-rape, imdb.american-south, aspectratio.1-33-1
Production Companies: Tomorrow Entertainment
Country: United States
Production Country:
United States
Languages:
English
Recommendations
96 min
April 28, 1979
Released
NR
13+
