I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Movie
TitleI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
User score

4.3

Release dateApr 28, 1979
GenreDrama, TV Movie
DirectorFielder Cook
Production countryUnited States of America
Production companiesTomorrow Entertainment
Run time96 min.

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.

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