Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ruth Negga | ... | Mildred | |
Joel Edgerton | ... | Richard | |
Will Dalton | ... | Virgil | |
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Dean Mumford | ... | Drag Race Driver |
Terri Abney | ... | Garnet | |
Alano Miller | ... | Raymond | |
Chris Greene | ... | Percy (as Chris R. Greene) | |
Benjamin Booker | ... | Shotgun Shack Musician #1 | |
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Justin Robinson | ... | Shotgun Shack Musician #2 |
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Dennis Williams | ... | Shotgun Shack Musician #3 |
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Keith Tyree | ... | Bricklayer |
Sharon Blackwood | ... | Lola Loving | |
Rebecca Turner | ... | Pregnant Girl | |
Christopher Mann | ... | Theoliver | |
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Mike Shiflett | ... | Magistrate |
Richard Loving, a white construction worker in Caroline County, Virginia, falls in love with a local black woman and family friend, Mildred Jeter. Upon Mildred discovering that she is pregnant, they decide to marry, but knowing that interracial marriage violates Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws, they drive to Washington, D.C. to get married in 1958. Richard makes plans to build a house for Mildred less than a mile from her family home.
Unfortunately, I think the movie itself just doesn't work and isn't overly interesting. I can appreciate a slow movie, as long as it builds to something worthwhile. With Loving, it's slow and there's no overarching momentum. There's no fluidity. It just inches along through a collection of scenes. And these scenes end up being incredibly repetitive. Not only do we see the characters doing a lot of the same things they were doing before, but a lot of information is repeated over and over. Scenes happen that give us no new information, or repeat what we learned from an earlier scene. It's not just that some scenes needed to be cut, the entire film needed to be restructured. As it stands right now, there's no connective tissue making this a cohesive film. It's just scene after scene. And yes, there is an endgame, but it's glossed over and trivialized in the scheme of the entirety of the movie. There was just nothing captivating about this movie, nothing really reeling me in...