by Phillip Erlewine
synopsis
River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned to a movie. It features James Earl Jones as a house-painter/poet who struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife (Cicely Tyson). This is a realistic portrayal of the difficulties encountered in the poverty-stricken ghetto.
characteristics
- Battling Illness
- Down On Their Luck
- Ideology
- Yakuza
- Ideals
- Mafia
- Mob
- Poor-family
- Poet
- Idealist
- Struggle
- Husband
- Community
- Cancer
- Black [race]
