This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district. LaLee's Kin takes us deep into the Mississippi Delta and the intertwined lives of LaLee Wallace, a great-grandmother struggling to hold her world together in the face of dire poverty, and Reggie Barnes, superintendent of the embattled West Tallahatchie School System. The film explores the painful legacy of slavery and sharecropping in the Delta.
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton has generally received very positive reviews.
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Review of LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001)
By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Oct 2004
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LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton was released in 2001 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 12 reviews, giving LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001) an average rating of 81%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 93%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 80%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton than critics were.
With a score of 81%, LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2001, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2001 with similar scores include films like A Beautiful Mind, Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India and Dil Chahta Hai.
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