Crickets Dance, The

[Available Oct. 26 on various VOD platforms.] When a beautiful, troubled, Georgia lawyer (Kristen Renton) inherits an antebellum mansion in Savannah from an old friend (Sandra Ellis Lafferty) and then becomes engrossed with a fascinating, 150-year-old diary she finds in the attic that chronicles the horrific life of a severely abused housewife (KateLynn E. Newberry), who was married to a cruel slave trader (William Mark McCullough), and her Black servant (Jamie Butler) in 1847 in Veronica Robledo's riveting, captivating, award-winning, well-acted, 92-minute, 2020 film based on a Deborah Robillard's novel and dominated with terrific cinematography, she finds herself falling for a Black attorney (Maurice Johnson) who works in her office after he saved her from a brutal attack by a disgruntled client and they both connect with the past.
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