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6.1/10   211 votes
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Director:
Charles Burnett
Writers:
Rachel West Nelson (book)
Frank Sikora (book)
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Release Date:
17 January 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl (Jurnee Smollett) is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 nominations more
User Comments:
Greatly affecting, if not brilliant more (9 total)

Cast

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Mackenzie Astin ... Jonathan Daniels

Jurnee Smollett ... Sheyann Webb
Clifton Powell ... Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ella Joyce ... Betty Webb
Yolanda King ... Miss Bright

Elizabeth Omilami ... Amelia Boynton
Afemo Omilami ... John Webb

Brett Rice ... Sheriff Pots

Tom Nowicki

Margo Moorer ... Alice West
Von Coulter ... Tom West
Laura-Shay Griffin ... Sallie Parker
Danny Nelson ... Father Whitaker

Faruq Tauheed ... Willie (as Faruq Jenkins)
Stephanie Zandra Peyton ... Rachel West
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Australia:PG
Filming Locations:
Griffin, Georgia, USA more
Company:
Esparza / Katz Productions more

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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the beginning of the movie, Johnathan Daniels first comes to Selma, he meets Father Whitaker. Father Whitaker is an Episcopal priest, as is Johnathan. Yet throughout the movie, Daniels is referred to as "Reverend Daniels," or a pastor or minister. This is inaccurate, as all Episcopal priests are referred to as "Father," not "Reverend." more

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Greatly affecting, if not brilliant, 1 May 2000
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Author: TheMrLee

Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" is a true masterpiece--an unsentimental look at ghetto life, rich in detail, marvelously flirting with an unexpected and regarding nonnarrative structure. "Selma, Lord, Selma" doesn't offer the same joys--it too obviously is a television project, with clearly identifiable "good guys" and "bad guys" and a strong sentimental thrust. Burnett seems to have been forced into removing the subtleties of the historical events he portrays by the limits of working with Disney. In the end, this movie is greatly affecting--it is hard to watch it with dry eyes--but it is not likely to make someone who isn't ignorant of the struggle for civil rights in the U.S. to think about the events in a new light.

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