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Loving

  • 2016
  • PG-13
  • 2h 3m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
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Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in Loving (2016)
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BiographyDramaRomance

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.

  • Director
    • Jeff Nichols
  • Writers
    • Jeff Nichols
    • Nancy Buirski
  • Stars
    • Ruth Negga
    • Joel Edgerton
    • Will Dalton
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    35K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jeff Nichols
    • Writers
      • Jeff Nichols
      • Nancy Buirski
    • Stars
      • Ruth Negga
      • Joel Edgerton
      • Will Dalton
    • 144User reviews
    • 255Critic reviews
    • 79Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 25 wins & 90 nominations total

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    Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in Loving (2016)
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    Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in Loving (2016)
    Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in Loving (2016)

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    Ruth Negga
    • Mildred
    Joel Edgerton
    Joel Edgerton
    • Richard
    Will Dalton
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    Dean Mumford
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    Terri Abney
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    • (as Chris R. Greene)
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    Benjamin Booker
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      • Jeff Nichols
    • Writers
      • Jeff Nichols
      • Nancy Buirski
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    • Trivia
      The production filmed outside the actual Virginia jail where the couple had been incarcerated, and inside the actual courthouse where they had pleaded guilty to the 'crime' of being married.
    • Goofs
      There's a scene where Mildred Loving is shown washing dishes at home, and the dinnerware appears to be made of Corelle. This brand of dinnerware was not introduced until 1970, and the scene in question would have been mid to late Sixties.
    • Quotes

      Richard Loving: [from trailer] Tell the judge I love my wife.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Martin Short & Steve Martin/Ruth Negga/Common (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Ooh! My Head
      Written and Performed by Ritchie Valens

      Published by Sony/ATV

      by arrangement with Sony Music Licensing and Warner Tamberlane Music

      Courtesy of Rhino Entertainment Company

      By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

    User reviews144

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    Featured review
    10/10
    The power of love makes you love the Lovings
    I had the chance to see this film at the Austin Film Festival, followed by a QA with the writer/director Jeff Nichols. Having already been familiar with this story from the made for television movie in 1996 starring Timothy Hutton and Lela Rochon as Richard and Mildred Loving. Many would ask why now or why remake this film? Well many people are simply unaware of this couple's story and their groundbreaking supreme court case, because it's certainly not mentioned or taught in public schools. So was the case for the writer/director, as mentioned he was not aware of their story. He carefully followed the documentary and archived records about them, while imagining what their conversations and dialogue would have been like between them. I found the landscape of the cinematography beautiful and breathtaking. The acting chemistry between Ruth Negga and Joel Edgarton was so tender and sincere, as you witness their love and vulnerabilities on screen, it makes you love the Lovings. Ruth Negga really shines as the quiet young woman who becomes the matriarch and leader of her family after watching the march on Washington DC, she decides to write a letter to then Attorney General Robert Kennedy. You see the transformation of two introverted people during the civil rights era become activists for change in their own way that is very powerful in this film. Historically many of the biracial descendants of this country's slave owning founding fathers never benefited from the wealth and privilege of the white ancestors. That is part of what what made their case was so monumental, in that it reversed segregationist slave laws that considered biracial children mongrel bastards and prohibited the rights of marriage and inheritance of interracial couples.
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    • dham629
    • Oct 19, 2016

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    • Release date
      • November 4, 2016 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Yêu
    • Filming locations
      • Lawrenceville Airport in Lawrenceville, Virginia, USA(as Richmond Dragway)
    • Production companies
      • Raindog Films
      • Big Beach Films
      • Talent One
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $9,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $7,751,969
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $159,615
      • Nov 6, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $12,957,265
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 3 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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