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Beloved (1998) 5.6
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Metascore: 57/100
Reviews: 203 user | 74 critic | 24 from Metacritic.com Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter. Director:Jonathan Demme |
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Janey Wagon
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Amy Denver
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Schoolteacher
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M. Lucille Williams
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Denver aged 9
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen... Written by Jeremy Cohen <crashbug@ix.netcom.com>
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The past has a life of its own.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for violent images, sexuality and nudity | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
16 October 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Agapimeni See more »Filming Locations:
Fair Hill Natural Resources Area - 376 Fair Hill Drive, Fair Hill, Maryland, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$53,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£74,302 (UK) (5 March 1999)Gross:
£148,377 (UK) (12 March 1999)Company Credits
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Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Sethe: Is that what got your teeth on edge?
Paul D: It's a feeling in me. I can't place it. It's her.
Sethe: You wanna feel something? Feel what it feel like to be a colored woman, roaming the roads, and anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that!
Paul D: I know every bit of that, Sethe. I wasn't born yesterday, and I never mistreated a woman in my life.
Sethe: Well, that ...
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Written and Performed by Jane Hunter
Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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Trivia
The farmhouse scenes were filmed in Fair Hill, Maryland, on parkland along the Big Elk Creek (seen in the creek wading scene). The park manager, Ed Walls even had a bit part as the ferris wheel operator. The house was entirely built for the movie, though it was convincing enough to fool park goers into thinking it was a real old farmhouse after the movie crew departed. There was no snow that year, so the winter scenes were fabricated with fake snow, plastic icicles and shaved ice, all of which had to be vacuumed up from the fields once shooting was completed. During filming, the park office got a call from another Maryland park asking for advice on dealing with a another film crew. They claimed some kids wanted to film a movie, but they said they didn't seem to know what they were doing, and seemed to just be running around the woods with cameras. The Beloved ended up not being nearly as big of a box office draw as The Blair Witch Project. See more »Goofs
The amount of lemonade in the glass while at the fairgrounds. See more »Quotes
Paul D: [after becoming more and more suspicious of Beloved] Sethe. Sethe, baby, we were starting to feel a little like a family ourself, till she come along.Sethe: Is that what got your teeth on edge?
Paul D: It's a feeling in me. I can't place it. It's her.
Sethe: You wanna feel something? Feel what it feel like to be a colored woman, roaming the roads, and anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that!
Paul D: I know every bit of that, Sethe. I wasn't born yesterday, and I never mistreated a woman in my life.
Sethe: Well, that ...
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Soundtracks
"Mr. Postman Die"Written and Performed by Jane Hunter
Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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After having read the novel by Toni Morrison, this film was extremely disappointing. The strength of the novel had to do with its use of interior monologue, and powerful flashback sequences. The interior monologue couldn't be transferred to screen, but the flashbacks could have been more than quarter-second flashes of remembered pain. In TIME magazine, Oprah Winfrey said that she wanted Beloved to be her Schindler's List. The difference between Beloved and Schindler's List is not just a discernible narrative, but also in the power of the imagery. By robbing us of the full slavery sequences and the entire sequence of Paul D's imprisonment in Alfred, Georgia lessen the power of the novel. The portrayal of Beloved was also extremely odd. She spoke in some kind of combination of Linda Blair in The Exorcist and a toad. Overall, Jonathan Demme really let this film slip out of greatness, and into the discount rack at the video store.