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Maya Angelou adapts her acclaimed eponymous memoir for the screen in this made-for-television production. As a child in Stamps, Arkansas, Maya reacts to the horrors of racism, sexual violence, and injustice by silencing herself, but she gradually grows proud, confident, and powerful.
Synopsis
Based on Maya Angelou's autobiographical novel, this film recounts her Depression-Era childhood and adolescent struggle with sexual trauma.
After their parents' divorce, Maya and her brother Baily are shipped off to rural Arkansas where they live with their grandmother. Though the KKK presents a continual threat to their family, the children grow strong and healthy under grandmother's watchful eye. Upon reaching adolescence, Maya and Baily are shipped back to their parents who, though still separated, are now able to take care of them. Baily chooses to live out West with their father while Maya moves in with their mother, Vivian. But no sooner has Maya settled into her new surroundings than she's sexually molested by a trusted family friend. Thus begins a process of healing for a bright, beautiful girl destined to blossom into a dynamic woman and writer.
Film Notes
Additional cast members include: John M. Driver II, Sonny Jim Gaines, J. Don Ferguson, Georgia Allen, Darleen Taylor, Darryl Williams, Tommie Stewart, Jack Stevens, Monica Kyles, Frankie Mitchell, Richard Salassi, Lewis Liddell, Sammy Liddell, Sylbester Spann,, Hosie Phillips, Myra Jo Arvin, George Cummins Torain, Laurie Waters, Mose Lee Williams, M. L. Breeland, Abbie Burns, Johnny Lewis, John L. Patterson, James Peters, Melvin Kennerly, Shirley Perkins, John C. Roper Jr., Terri Ann Ross, and I.D. Thompson.
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