Beloved

 

Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise
Touchstone Pictures; Directed by Jonathan Demme
Rated R; 172 minutes; 1998

  
Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), an ex-slave, kills her child, Beloved, so that she too, would not become a slave in this post-Civil War drama based on Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The ghost (Thandie Newton) of the young girl reappears as a young woman having survived the horrors of a slave ship. It is Beloved who forces Sethe to face the past, for only then, can Sethe be free.

 

 “One of the best films of the decade. A magnificent film. Ms. Winfrey is shattering perfection.”
 - Dennis Cunningham, CBS-TV

“A gripping, wildly imaginative film that’s not quite like any other.”
- Janet Maslin, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A remarkable achievement.”
- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES		  

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