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Film review: 'Down in the Delta'

Miramax's "Down in the Delta" is a riveting, inspiring tale of one black family's rebirth.

Featuring a splendid lead performance by Alfre Woodard and directed with compassion and deliberate delicacy by Maya Angelou, "Delta" will warm viewers' hearts with its universal sensibility.

In this sobering production -- a Miramax, Showtime presentation -- Woodard stars as Loretta, an addled alcoholic-druggie staggering around Chicago's Cabrini Green while her two young children, Thomas (Mpho Koaho) and Tracy (Kulani Hassen), are left to the matriarchal care of Loretta's solid mother, Rosa (Mary Alice).

So far, Thomas is the only kid in his project not packing and Rosa fears it's only a number of weeks before he, too, will tote a gun.

Loretta's personal disintegration is so steep that Rosa fears her daughter will soon overdose.

In Rosa's practical and caring mind, there's only one o Kulani Hassen - Turner Classic Movies XIJ