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Nineteenth-Century New Orleans is the backdrop for this emotional drama of a world filled with despair and secrets. When Philippe Ferronaire, the cousin of Magloire Dazincourt a southern sugar plantation owner is asked to take over the business, he's also asked to care of his colored mistress, Cecile Ste. Marie. When Magloire dies, Philippe and Cecile have a son named Marcel. Philippe promises to have their son properly educated in Paris. But social and racial matters change the course for Marcel and when financial problems hit hard, Marcel is instead put to work as an undertaker and Philippe is forced to marry his daughter off to the son of a black businessman.
Movie Details
- Format
- DVD
- Encoding
- Region 1 (US & Canada)
- Rating
- NR
- Originally Released
- 2001
- Runtime
- 3 hours, 31 minutes
- Label
- CBS
- Starring
- Robert Ri'chard; Peter Gallagher; Gloria Reuben; Jennifer Beals; Ossie Davis; Ruby Dee; Pam Grier; Jasmine Guy; James Earl Jones; Ertha Kitt; Ben Vereen; Forest Whitaker
Manufactured on Demand
This film was released by studios as part of their MOD (Manufactured-On-Demand) line of releases. This is not a bootleg. In order to make the release of films with low sales demand possible, major studios like Universal, Sony, Warner, Paramount, Hallmark and 20th Century Fox have contracted with a distributor to provide manufactured-on-demand releases to consumers.