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24 February 2001 (USA)
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Start walkin'.
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Black Americans boycott the public buses during the 1950s civil rights movement. | add synopsis
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5 wins
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Powerful film, moving experience
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jeffrey Wright | ... | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
 | Terrence Howard | ... | Ralph Abernathy |
 | CCH Pounder | ... | Jo Ann Robinson |
 | Carmen Ejogo | ... | Coretta Scott King |
 | Reg E. Cathey | ... | E.D. Nixon |
| Brent Jennings | ... | Rufus Lewis |
| Iris Little Thomas | ... | Rosa Parks (as Iris Little-Thomas) |
| Shawn Michael Howard | ... | Fred Gray |
| Erik Dellums | ... | Bayard Rustin (as Erik Todd Dellums) |
| Mike Hodge | ... | Daddy King |
| Whitman Mayo | ... | Reverend Banyon |
| Walter Franks | ... | Reverend Fields |
 | Mert Hatfield | ... | Mayor Gayle |
 | Tom Nowicki | ... | Commissioner Sellars |
| Danny Nelson | ... | Commissioner Parks |
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Daybreak of Freedom (USA) (working title)
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Rated PG for thematic material and some language.
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118 min
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Blind Man
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This film, following other classics of histo-drama such as Malcolm X or Cry Freedom, is not a biography of Martin Luther King. Instead, it shows in detail the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the beginnings of Dr. King's philosophy and motivation.
It is somewhat dis-orienting at first, as it is shot both in a documentary style, with references to the camera and a raw, un-cut feel, and in a more traditional style. However, as the movie progresses, you find both styles equally powerful in their methods.'
I found this film particularly moving because I was not alive during the events depicted, and the personification or the real-ization of the characters, people I grew up near worshiping, brought home just how different today's world is from 1950's Alabama.