The movie is based on a short story by the same name in The Ways of White Folks, a collection of short stories by Langston Hughes.
In 2000, Sudduth appeared in two films, the teen comedy Road Trip (2000) as Mark, and the Masterpiece Theater television film Cora Unashamed (2000) as Joe in a drama based on the Langston Hughes short story.
O'Brien worked with Masterpiece to produce Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection, a series of television adaptations of American novels, including The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, Cora Unashamed by Langston Hughes, The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty, A Death in the Family by James Agee, and Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago.
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