Actress sees human side of `Delta' role

Actress sees human side of `Delta' role

Kay Bourne

Loretta is a fall down drunk who sneaks nickels and dimes from her small children to buy a bottle in the Maya Angelou directed movie "Down In The Delta" (Miramax Pictures).

Even so, actress Alfre Woodard, who plays the distraught Loretta, right away recognized in this despondent woman, a person of courage.

The enthralling saga relates the story of a proud African American family whose acknowledged patriarch is the father of a soldier in the Civil War.

The movie opens Christmas Day at the Kendall Theater in Cambridge. The film also features Al Freeman, Jr., Mary Alice, Loretta Devine, and Wesley …