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Good Fences is a 2003 American comedy-drama television film directed by Ernest Dickerson and written by Trey Ellis, based on the 1997 novel of the same name by his wife Erika Ellis. The film is about the stresses of prejudice on an upwardly mobile black family in 1970s Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Feb 2, 2003 · Good Fences: Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Zachary Simmons Glover, Mo'Nique. Good Fences is about an upwardly-mobile Black family for whom the American dream becomes a nightmare.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Ernest R. Dickerson
- 2003-02-02
Good Fences is about an upwardly-mobile Black family for whom the American dream becomes a nightmare. In the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak."
A black attorney (Danny Glover), his wife (Whoopi Goldberg) and their two children move to a posh neighborhood in Greenwich, Conn.
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- Ernest R. Dickerson
- TV-14
- Whoopi Goldberg
Good Fences. R | 119 min | 2003. A black family moves to a posh neighborhood in the 1970s.
- 119 min
Marketed as a comedy, Good Fences is anything but. If you're expecting a barrel of laughs, rent something else for your weekend matinee. The story does seem light, centering on an affluent black family in the 1970s moving to the suburbs in Connecticut; but it's actually a study in class and character.
Good Fences. 2003 · 1 hr 59 min. R. Drama. In the 1970s, an African-American attorney moves his family into the posh, white world of Greenwich, Connecticut—with provocative results. Subtitles: English.
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