TMDb Rating
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Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008)
Documentary
83 min
Plot Summary
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original.
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DocumentarySam PollardZora Neale HurstonKim Brockington2008
Director
Sam Pollard
Top Cast
Zora Neale HurstonKim BrockingtonS. Epatha Merkerson
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