The Piano Lesson (1995)

Directors

Lloyd Richards

Cast

Alfre Woodard, Carl Gordon, Charles S. Dutton, Tommy Hollis

The story

In 1936, Boy Willie and his friend Lymon travel from Mississippi to Pittsburgh, where he wishes his sister Berniece will give him the family's heirloom piano so that he can sell it to buy land from Mr. Sutter, a descendant of the family that once owned Willie's own ancestors as slaves. The piano itself had at one time belonged to the wife of the original Sutter, the white former owner of their family.

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