Beloved
(R)
Sethe: Oprah Winfrey
Paul D: Danny Glover
Beloved: Thandie Newton
Denver: Kimberly Elise
Baby Suggs: Beah Richards
Young Sethe: Lisa Gay Hamilton
Stamp Paid: Albert Hall
Ella: Irma P. Hall
Directed by Jonathan Demme. Written by Akosua Busia and Richard LaGravenese and Adam Brooks. Based on the novel by Toni Morrison. Running time: 175 minutes. Rated R (for violent images, sexuality and nudity).
Synopsis:
The Movie timeframe is set before the civil war. During the time when the north
and the south had seperated. When the North had free'ed/run-away slaves were
working in the north, doing remedial services. The movie is about a ex-slave
who has set herself up with a new life. She braugh herself accross the north/so
uth border while pregant, while trying to leave her plantation she is raped by her
masters farm hands. She was trying to find her fiance left on the farm. She
makes it out of the plantation and to the boarder. A white woman helps her
give birth, and the child was named after her. When she gets to her grandmothers
home, she is met up with her two boys and her daughter. After living the good
life for a while, her old master comes looking for her. He comes to her
grandmothers house, to take her and her family back. Instead of having her children
live in slavery she tries to kill her family. Hitting her two boys over the head
with a shovel, beating her baby arround, and the bloodiness of them all. The
slicing of her daughters throat with a saw. With the amount of blood, and the
heed'ness of the action, her master does'nt take anyone with him back home.
After the attempted killings, only her daughter dies.(it's hard to get over having
your throat ripped open) Years later after Oprahs character is haunted by her
slayed daughters spirit. The spirit chases away Oprahs two sons, and anyone
passing by the house. Oprah has basically lost all the love in her life accept
her youngest daughter (the baby born while crossing the boarder)One day a wondering
man (Samuel L. Jackson) passes the house and sees his old friend Oprah.
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