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The film was adapted from August Wilson's play Fences. Production culminated in the 2016 release of the film, over a decade after Wilson's death. Previous attempts to adapt Fences for the screen had been fruitless, partly due to Wilson's insistence on an African-American director.
- $64.4 million
- Fences, by August Wilson
- $24 million
- Marcelo Zarvos
Dec 25, 2016 · Fences: Directed by Denzel Washington. With Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo. A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
- Denzel Washington
- 2 min
Jan 5, 2017 · Despite being a titanic figure of American theater, Wilson's work has never been adapted for the screen before Denzel Washington's Fences. Why?
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Jan 5, 2017 · Denzel Washington’s adaptation of the August Wilson play “Fences” boasts committed performances, especially by Washington and Viola Davis, but their theatricality spurns the exhilarations of...
Feb 9, 2017 · P roducer-director-star Denzel Washington brings his passion project to the screen with distinction, and it’s been rewarded with four Academy Award nominations: picture, actor, actress, adapted...
Dec 19, 2016 · The film, adapted from the late August Wilson's award-winning play of the same name, illuminates the inner lives of working class Americans living in the Rust Belt, the same kind of citizens...
Dec 15, 2016 · Fences is moviemaking as public service, like PBS's Masterpiece Theater: an accessible adaptation of a necessary literary work that few will ever have the opportunity to see onstage.