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- Although occasionally too indebted to the needs of a Hollywood docudrama, Rosewood is well-made and undeniably harrowing, effective in its depictions of brutality and wise about the numerous underpinnings keeping systemic racism in place. That said, I can't stop thinking about Ving Rhames.
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Feb 21, 1997 · John Singleton's "Rosewood'' re-creates the story of a shameful event in American history, the race riot by whites against blacks in 1922 in the small Florida town of Rosewood, which left the town in smoking ruin while dozens of its residents were shot, burned to death or lynched.
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Rosewood is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by John Singleton, inspired by the 1923 Rosewood massacre in Florida, when a white mob killed black people and destroyed their town. In a major change, it stars Ving Rhames as an outsider who comes into Rosewood and inspires residents to self-defense, wielding his pistols in a fight.
Feb 21, 1997 · Rosewood: Directed by John Singleton. With Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill. A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.
- (8.9K)
- Action, Drama, History
- John Singleton
- 1997-02-21
John Singleton's Rosewood documents the tragedy of the Rosewood Massacre in piercingly raw detail, showing us how a prosperous Florida town fell to shambles from one woman's lie, spawning over a hundred murders and massive calamity on the survivor's shoulders for years to come.
Action-packed historical drama; some violence. Read Common Sense Media's Rosewood review, age rating, and parents guide.
- John Singleton
- Lynnette Nicholas
- Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
87% Tomatometer 55 Reviews 83% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Rosewood, Florida, is a small, peaceful town with an almost entirely African-American population of middle-class homeowners, until New...
- (55)
- History, Drama
- R
Feb 9, 1997 · An unblinking look at the wages of racism, “Rosewood” absorbingly recounts a ghastly and little-known chapter of 20th-century American history. Although it increasingly succumbs to a tendency ...
