Rosewood
Summary:
Rosewood is the true story of an almost unknown incident in a small Florida town, (fictionalized, but faithful to the known facts, as documented in a 1994 report by the Florida Legislature). The town was inhabited almost entirely by quiet, "middle-class" African- Americans (most of them home and land owners and better off than average at the time.) On New Year's day, 1923, the town wa... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jon Voight - (John Wright)
Ving Rhames - (Mann)
Don Cheadle - (Sylvester Carrier)
Bruce McGill - (Duke)
Loren Dean - (James Taylor)
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Review:
The best effort from filmmaker John Singleton since his debut Boyz 'N the Hood (1991), this high-quality drama ably re-creates a shocking true incident from Florida history but falters in its troubling insistence on creating a fictional, iconic protagonist around whom much of the action is centered. In its sprawling narrative, its assur... Continue >>
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