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Good Fences. A black attorney (Danny Glover), his wife (Whoopi Goldberg) and their two children move to a posh neighborhood in Greenwich, Conn. Prime Video.
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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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- Ernest R. Dickerson
- 2003-02-02
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.
10 ★★★★★ ratings (4%) ★★★★★. Popular reviews. More. Review by Wes Edwards ★★½. There are a few funny moments in Good Fences, but this effort to wring laughs from the story of a Black family’s venture into a posh all-white suburb mostly falls flat.
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- Ernest R. Dickerson
Jan 31, 2003 · The funniest line in ''Good Fences,'' which makes repeated use of a familiar racial epithet, just goes to prove that comedy and drama can coexist. GOOD FENCES Showtime, Sunday night at 8...
Jan 30, 2003 · By Joe Leydon. A muddled made-for-cable pic that won the lottery and wound up at 2003 Sundance Film Festival, “Good Fences” (set to premiere Feb. 2 on Showtime) is a stupefyingly clumsy mix of...
