The River Niger

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1h 45m 18+Drama

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled... Read more

Starring James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett Jr., Glynn Turman, Jonelle Allen, Roger E. Mosley, Ralph Wilcox, Teddy Wilson, Charles Weldon, Shirley Jo Finney

Watch "The River Niger" from streaming services Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Roku Channel and several more released in 1976. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 6 out of 10 from Imdb which is fairly okay for this kind of movie.