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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 54486
Released: June 24, 2003 |
| Our Price: $4.50 |
| Used Price: $2.96 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
From the classic book by William H. Armstrong comes Disney's all-new production of SOUNDER, an uplifting story of one boy's faith, strength, and dogged determination. As Boy's (Daniel Lee Robertson III) family faces the daily struggles of Depression-era sharecroppers, a loyal coonhound named Sounder becomes their only real friend. Food is scarce, and nightly hunting trips offer little relief. In an act of desperation, Father steals to feed his hungry family. When Father is convicted, it triggers Boy's courageous journey to find him in the labor camps. Boy comes a long way to discover much more -- a friendly teacher, a hunger to read, and a better life.
Description of Sounder:
In a quirk of film history, this new version of the 1972 classic is directed by Kevin Hooks--who played the central role of the sharecropper's son in the original. That's a nice full circle, although it leaves unanswered a basic question: why bother remaking a movie that got it right the first time? The story is simplicity: a black family in the Depression suffers when the father is arrested for stealing a ham. The punishment? Five years, hard labor. Sounder has an under-rehearsed, rushed quality common to low-budget TV pictures, although Carl Lumbly brings a powerful presence to the role of the father. (That's Paul Winfield, the star of the original, as the teacher who befriends the son.) The shortcomings may not matter much to the young audiences Disney targets, as they'll probably be too busy rooting for the return of the dog that gives the movie its name. --Robert Horton
Sounder Reviews:
Sounder Movie Review 
2009-06-23 - [...]
This an older children's literature book. It is timeless and this movie is faithful to the book. It is one that will have students spellbound and asking the age old question of WHY? Just as we do now. I can highly recommend it ... My sixth graders loved it ... LHL
Not as good as the ORIGINAL - as is for most things in LIFE 
2003-12-04 - There is something authentic about the original that this new version lacks. I remember being a child in school watching the Cicely Tyson & Paul Winfield classic, and I'm just being honest, but nothing beats the original. If you're going to watch the modern remake, do yourself the favor and enjoy the classic too! It's one-of-a-kind :)
I loved it!
2003-05-06 - Even though this production was my cousin, Daniel Lee Robertson's first movie, I'm not going to be biased. I loved it!!!
Congrats Dan Dan!
