Denzel Washington
Demetrius Williams
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
Release Date | 1991-09-18 |
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Runtime | 1h 58m |
Directors | Mira Nair, Edward Lachman, Michael Zimbrich, Noga Isackson, Dinaz Stafford, Linda Wilson |
Producers | Lydia Dean Pilcher, Mitch Epstein, Cherie L. Rodgers, Michael Nozik, Mira Nair |
Writer | Sooni Taraporevala |