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The Piano Lesson is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lloyd Richards released in USA on 5 february 1995 with Charles Dutton

The Piano Lesson (1995)

The Piano Lesson
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Released in USA 5 february 1995
Length 1h35
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating67% 3.3915353.3915353.3915353.3915353.391535

The Piano Lesson is a 1995 American TV movie based on the play The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. Produced by Hallmark Hall of Fame, the film originally aired on CBS on February 5, 1995. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the film starred Charles S. Dutton and Alfre Woodard, and relies on most of its cast from the original Broadway production.

Synopsis

Boy Willie (Charles S. Dutton) and his friend Lymon (Courtney B. Vance) travel from Mississippi to Pittsburgh, where he wishes his sister Berniece (Alfre Woodard) to give him the family's heirloom piano so that he can sell it to buy land from Mr. Sutter (Tim Hartman), a descendent of the family that once owned Willy'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... and decades earlier, Berniece and Willy Boy's grandfather had, at the slave master's instructions, carved the black family's African tribal history and American slave history into the piano's surface.

Actors

Charles Dutton

(Boy Willie)Alfre Woodard

(Berniece Charles)Carl Gordon

(Doaker)Tommy Hollis

(Avery)Lou Myers

(Wining Boy)
And :
Courtney B. Vance
Zelda Harris
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