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6 March 2005 (USA) morePlot:
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston. | full synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 17 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Halle Berry, Hot and Crazy in 'Frankie and Alice' (From Get The Big Picture. 21 December 2008, 3:30 AM, PST)
Berry Goes Public with Versace Model
(From WENN. 10 February 2006)
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Awful Movie moreCast
(Credited cast)| Halle Berry | ... | Janie Starks | |
| Ruben Santiago-Hudson | ... | Joe Starks | |
| Michael Ealy | ... | Tea Cake | |
| Nicki Micheaux | ... | Phoebe Watson | |
| Lorraine Toussaint | ... | Pearl Stone | |
| Ruby Dee | ... | Nanny | |
| Terrence Howard | ... | Amos Hicks (as Terrence Dashon Howard) | |
| Gabriel Casseus | ... | Sam Watson | |
| Artel Great | ... | Motor Boat (as Artel Kayàru) | |
| Kevin Daniels | ... | Liege Moss | |
| Henry Brown | ... | Walter Stone | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jensen Atwood | ... | Johnny Taylor | |
| Ariana Auza | ... | Seminole Indian | |
| Aldo Ceceña | ... | Seminole Indian Flute Player | |
| Taji Coleman | ... | Daisy Blunt | |
| Matthew Dickens | ... | Principal Dancer | |
| Wayne Duvall | ... | Dr. Gordon | |
| Ricky Fante | ... | Singer | |
| Charles Hailey | ... | Man Passing in car | |
| Andre James | ... | Field Worker | |
| Veryl Jones | ... | Sop De Botton | |
| Lisa Michelle Lovelace | ... | Nunkie (as Lisa Lovelace) | |
| Sean Nelson | ... | Hezekiah | |
| Steven Sebastian Price | ... | Brawny Man / Singer | |
| Lisa Ruffin | ... | Principal Dancer | |
| Taja V. Simpson | ... | Wife of New Family | |
| J.R. Starr | ... | Pastor, Thompson | |
| Rhonda Stubbins White | ... | Annie Tyler | |
| Mark Anthony Williams | ... | Frank Tyler | |
| Raymond T. Williams | ... | Gigolo | |
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Phoebe Watson: If that Tea Cake ever shows his behind in Eatonville again, he'll wish he hadn't. He knew you had just lost Joe, so he took advantage of you and your money.Janie Starks: He ain't wasted none of my money. And if he were here, he'd tell everybody so, too.
Phoebe Watson: But he gone, ain't he?
Janie Starks: [Is silent]
Phoebe Watson: He dragged you down to his level, and then....
Janie Starks: Y'all think he did me wrong.
Janie Starks: Janie, we all know he did you wrong!
Janie Starks: Well, I ain't stunned by what they think.
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I've read the book and seen the movie; the book is better. To do justice to the book, the movie should have been in two parts, the first could have focused on Janie's childhood and youth and her life with Joe Starks and the second could have focused on her life with Tea Cake. I knew I'd have problems with the movie when Oprah introduced the movie by talking about Janie kissing Tea Cake. No movie could include everything in the book, but by leaving out Janie's family history, we don't get a clear idea why Nanny forces Janie to marry Logan Killicks. In the novel, the people in Eatonville are complex and interesting people. In the movie, they are reduced to clichés. Don't any of the work? Sorry, but race is an important part of the book and there should have been a way to include this in the movie. Mrs. Turner and the trial are important parts of the novel; the movie was a Lifetime feature. Halle Berry doesn't have the acting chops to play Janie. She looked the same from beginning to end. Put a little dirt on her and she still looks good. The scenes in the Glades were awful. Unlike, the novel, there was no sense of the people working. The movie gives the impression that these people spend most of their time singing and dancing in camp. Talk about a cliché. In the novel Janie makes a choice to go work with Tea Cake; in the movie it was Halle going slumming. The end of the novel is grabs you; the movie's end was laughable. By the way, I don't think the novel is anti-male or anti-white. Oprah said that Zora Neale Hurston was going to let out a shout. Yes and the shout would be "Orpah you ruined my novel!" Orpah made a movie called "Their Eyes Were Watching Halle." I hope someday, someone will make a real movie of "Their Eyes Were Watching God."