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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

  • 20192019
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
A meditation on the legendary storyteller that examines her life, her works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.
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This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
839
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
  • Stars
    • Toni Morrison
    • Hilton Als
    • Oprah Winfrey
  • Director
    • Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
  • Stars
    • Toni Morrison
    • Hilton Als
    • Oprah Winfrey
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 8User reviews
    • 45Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 9 nominations

    Videos7

    Official Trailer
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    Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
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    Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am: Praying For Blue Eyes
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    Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am: Toni Morrison And Angela Davis Talk 'Beloved'
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    Watch Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am: Toni Morrison And Angela Davis Talk 'Beloved'
    Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am: My World Is A Black World
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    Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am: Farah Griffin On Sula
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    Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am: Working Woman
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    Toni Morrison in American Masters (1985)
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    Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison
    • Self
    Hilton Als
    • Self
    Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey
    • Self
    Russell Banks
    Russell Banks
    • Self
    Angela Davis
    Angela Davis
    • Self
    Robert Gottlieb
    • Self
    Walter Mosley
    Walter Mosley
    • Self
    Fran Lebowitz
    Fran Lebowitz
    • Self
    Peter Sellars
    Peter Sellars
    • Self
    Farah Griffin
    • Self
    Paula Giddings
    • Self
    David Carrasco
    • Self
    Sonia Sanchez
    Sonia Sanchez
    • Self
    Richard Danielpour
    • Self
    Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Dick Cavett
    Dick Cavett
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    June Jordan
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Bill Moyers
    Bill Moyers
    • Self
    • Director
      • Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Toni Morrison passed away on August 5, 2019, a month and a half after this film was released.
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      Toni Morrison: [Toni Morrison, in voiceover during opening credits, reading from her 1987 novel, "Beloved"] She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am? She gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know. When you got a woman who is a friend of your *mind*.

    • Crazy credits
      Accompanying the opening credits, film footage shows someone's hands creating a cumulative set of collages that are assembled from mixed-and-matched pieces of photos of the face of the documentary's subject, Toni Morrison. At the start of this sequence, Morrison is heard in voiceover saying, "She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am? She gather them and give them back to me in all the right order". (These words are from her 1987 novel, "Beloved".) As the portrait pieces come and go, the representations of Morrison's face show her aging from young adulthood to the time the film was made, ending with pieces from a portrait taken by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the film's director.
    • Connections
      Edited into Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am - Deleted Scenes (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      This Train Is Bound For Glory
      Traditional

      Performed by Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    User reviews8

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    10/10
    Fabulous!
    I loved this documentary! It left me feeling inspired and empowered. I have read a few of Ms. Morrison's books. They were complicated, yet I could not put them down. Her books are an insight to the inner workings of her mind: complicated, intense and most of all brilliant!

    I was grateful for the opportunity to be given a personal look to the insight of this brilliant, and thoughtful scholar. It makes we want to go out and buy all of her books and reexamine them through a deeper lens.
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    • guyadiangold
    • Jul 5, 2019

    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 21, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Det här är jag - Toni Morrison
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Perfect Day Films
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $903,018
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $48,050
      • Jun 23, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $927,495
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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