Bush Mama (1979)

Directors

Haile Gerima

Cast

Barbarao, Johnny Weathers, Susan Williams, Cora Lee Day

The story

Told in a fragmented style that frequently makes use of flashbacks and abrupt cuts, Bush Mama is the story of Dorothy, a woman living in L.A. neighborhood of Watts, trying to care for her adolescent daughter and her husband, T.C., a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead, he is falsely arrested and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Dorothy spends her days trying to obtain welfare, talking with her friends and neighbors (all of whom face poverty and unemployment), and wondering if T.C.

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