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LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

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"LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton" takes us deep into the Mississippi Delta and the intertwined lives of LaLee Wallace, a great-grandmother struggling to hold her world together in the face of dire poverty, and Reggie Barnes, superintendent of the embattled West Tallahatchie School System. The film explores the painful legacy of slavery and sharecropping in the Delta.

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Christopher Campbell Nonfics (Substack) Jan 13
Retrospectively, LaLee’s Kin now just looks like "poverty porn," with its images of one family’s life in squalor and little boys bathing in buckets. However, viewed contextually for the present and going forward, it’s increasingly more damning. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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05/27/2019 An exceptional work of art! See more 06/18/2008 A remarkable look at modern American poverty, and the cycle created and perpetuated by both slavery and wage slavery. This is a movie that is sometimes difficult to watch, but sheds lights on the origins of all those "F Schools," on all those crumbling houses and unpaved roads that we see from the highways; it is a movie that doesn't offer easy solutions, but a movie that documents the damages nonetheless, which is just as important. See more Read all reviews
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Deborah Dickson

Director

Susan Froemke

Director

Albert Maysles

Director

Reggie Barnes

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LaLee Wallace

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Susan Froemke

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LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001) Antonio 'Main' Scott and Gregory 'Redman' Wallace. LALEE'S KIN: THE LEGACY OF COTTON- Lalee Wallace. View more photos

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Synopsis "LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton" takes us deep into the Mississippi Delta and the intertwined lives of LaLee Wallace, a great-grandmother struggling to hold her world together in the face of dire poverty, and Reggie Barnes, superintendent of the embattled West Tallahatchie School System. The film explores the painful legacy of slavery and sharecropping in the Delta.
Director
Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles
Producer
Susan Froemke, John Hoffman
Distributor
HBO
Production Co
Maysles Films, Home Box Office (HBO)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 19, 2001, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$5.5K
Runtime
1h 29m