April 8, 1976 (USA Film Festival)
May 2, 1976 (New York City)
Birch Interval is a 1976 American independent coming-of-age drama film written by Joanna Crawford, directed by Delbert Mann, and starring Eddie Albert, Rip Torn, Ann Wedgeworth, Anne Revere, and Susan McClung. It is based on Crawford's 1964 novel of the same name.
Storyline
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.