Stompin' at the Savoy
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- On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 14 reviews. Roger Ebert gave the movie four stars of four. At the 1997 NAACP Image Awards film received two nominations: for Outstanding Motion Picture, and Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture (Phylicia Rashad).
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Jan 26, 1996 · Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored: Directed by Tim Reid. With Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Paula Kelly. A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
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The film takes place in Glen Allan, Mississippi, during the mid-20th century. In the early stages of the film, the audience gains more knowledge regarding Cliff’s upbringing. His biological mother was too young to take care of him and was not able to provide Cliff with financial support therefore he was raised by his extended family. Ma Pearl and P...
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 14 reviews. Roger Ebertgave the movie four stars of four.
Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored at IMDbOnce Upon a Time...When We Were Colored at Rotten TomatoesJan 26, 1996 · Tim Reid's "Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored" re-creates the world of a black community in the rural South in the years from 1946 to 1962, as hardline segregation gradually fell to the assault of the civil rights movement.
Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored. It's 1946 in Mississippi, and young Cliff (Charles Earl Taylor Jr.), living under the care of great-grandfather Poppa (Al Freeman Jr.) and great ...
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- Al Freeman Jr.
Actor Tim Reid makes an impressive directorial debut with an emotionally quiet saga that chronicles a momentous era in black communal life, one mostly neglected by U.S. films. By Emanuel Levy ...
Jan 12, 1999 · ONCE UPON A TIME...WHEN WE WERE COLORED - (1995) RATING - PG for thematic elements including mild violence, language and sensuality. STARRING - Al Freeman, Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon THEME - Racial discrimination, family, community, growing up in the South. REVIEWS - Siskel & Ebert (4/4) 'TWO THUMBS UP'
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Jan 26, 1996 · This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there.
