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©2005
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally produced as an episode of the television program ExxonMobil Masterpiece theatre's American collection in 2000
A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers
Based on the short story Cora unashamed by Langston Hughes
Director of photography, Ernest Holzmann ; editor, Debra I. Moore ; music, Patrice Rushen
Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Ellen Muth, Michael Gaston, Kohl Sudduth, Arlen Dean Snyder, C.C.H. Pounder
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DVD; Dolby digital; region 1
Soundtrack in English
Closed-captioned