Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.
- Awards
- 2 wins total
- Narrator
- (voice)
- Self - Director, International Monetary Fund
- (archive footage)
- (as Horst Kohler)
- Self - Professor of Economics, University of West Indies
- (as Dr. Michael Witter)
- Self - President of the United States
- (archive footage)
- Self - U.S. Potato Board
- (archive footage)
- Self - Former President, Ghana
- (archive footage)
- (as Jerry Rawlings)
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- Quotes
Narrator: "Jamaica was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Not too long after, it was settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslaved but noble and exalted human beings from Africa to satisfy their desire for wealth and power. Eventually the masters left, in a kind of way; eventually the salves were freed, in a kind of way. Of course, the whole thing is, once you cease to be master you're no longer human rubbish, you're just a human being and all the things that adds up to; so too with the slaves, once they are no longer slaves, once they're free they are no longer noble and exalted, they are just human beings." based on "A Small Place" copyright 1987 Jamaica Kincaid
- Crazy creditsSpecial heartfelt gratitude to the interviewees who share the truth with such eloquence.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The North Pole Deception (2010)
- SoundtracksG-7
Written by Ziggy Marley (as David Marley)
Performed by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
Courtesy of Elektra Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
Used by permission of Colgems-EMI Music Inc.
This film is an adaption of Jamaica Kincaid's novel "A Small Place," originally based on the story of Antigua (changed to Jamaica for the purposes of this film). If you enjoy the movie, be sure to read the book. In the film, as in the novel, Kincaid's voice-over narration is a powerful reminder of the complicated relationship between tourist and native, powerful and powerless, oppressors and oppressed. I would recommend this documentary to anyone interesting in how developed nations like the United States affect the development of Third World countries like Jamaica, even if you know nothing about it.
- melliferous
- Mar 9, 2006
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Details
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $263,107
- Gross worldwide
- $263,107
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1