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Oct 16, 1998 · Beloved: Directed by Jonathan Demme. With Yada Beener, Emil Pinnock, Calen Johnson, Oprah Winfrey. A slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman.
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- 2 min
A slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman. Haunted by so many painful and well-hidden secrets, former slave Sethe is bent on finding freedom for the sake of her children. Out of the blue, as Sethe struggles to grapple with her troubled past in her humble home somewhere in post-Civil-War Cincinnati, Paul D, an old familiar ...
Oct 16, 1998 · The film tells the story of Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), who was a slave on a Kentucky plantation in the days before the Civil War. Now Sethe is free, and lives in a frame house on a few acres on the outskirts of Cincinnati--”124 Bluestone Road,” the film informs us, as if it would be an ordinary house if it were not for the poltergeist that haunts it. When Paul D (Danny Glover), who knew her ...
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Beloved (1998) Beloved (1998) Beloved (1998) Beloved (1998) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis In 1873 Ohio, Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) is a mother of three haunted by her horrific slavery past and ...
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- Jonathan Demme
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- Oprah Winfrey
Takin' me away in the wagon. There Halle was, in the yard, sittin' by the churn. They didn't need to put no chains on him no more. His mind was gone. Sethe... a man ain't a goddamn axe, chopping and hacking, bustin' every minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside.
When Winfrey decided she wanted to produce the movie "Beloved" (opening Friday) and play the lead, a former slave named Sethe, there was concern that audiences would be distracted because Sethe was the famous Oprah Winfrey. "When everyone was saying to me, `How are you gonna be able to lose yourself in this role?'
Oct 16, 1998 · Jonathan Demme. Toni Morrison. Adam Brooks. Akosua Busia. Richard LaGravenese. After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
