Movie

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

★ 4.3/10 · 10 votes 1979 1h 36m Released

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Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.

Cast

Paul Benjamin Freeman Diahann Carroll Vivian Ruby Dee Grandmother Baxter Roger E. Mosley Bailey, Sr. Esther Rolle Momma Madge Sinclair Miss Flowers