Beloved

i love this movie it romantic in a way and also scary it is twenty movies in one liked it better than color purple i rate a... Full review

Oprah's vanity project could have been a terrific movie if it did not have moments of scenes that stretch too far and other scenes that don't make sense. While I enjoyed the performances especially Kimberly Elise and the costumes, scenery. The... Full review

The movie is about an ex slave who is being haunted by the memories of her past and by her dead daughter.oprah in the was great she put her self in the place of sethe who ran away from sweet home... Full review

My problem is not with the story, it is with the actors. Danny Glover really should have left this movie alone because I don't think that he does Paul D. an important character, any justice. The character who played Beloved totally... Full review

Really disappointing - I should have realized in the first 30 minutes that this movie would just continue to be confusing and pathetic. Overacting, lack of cohesive story line, dialogue difficult to follow, too many questions left unanswered. Just really, really... Full review

After reading this book in a college course on slavery, we watched the movie. Three class days wasted! The book was beautiful, though non-linear. The flashbacks that explained a lot of the current story were in the movie just confusing 1... Full review

This movie was ok. I heard it was nominated for an Oscar back in '99 and I can sort of see why. At first the movie was a little weird and disturbing, but then it kind of settled down. I think... Full review

After 8 years of hearing how good this movie was, I decided to watch it. Thank goodness it was on cable (which I already pay for) or I would have been livid to have wasted not only my time, but my... Full review

is lauded by critics. This is the only F I have ever given a movie, and if ever an F rating were meant for a form of "entertainment", this is the one. What was the director and screenwriter thinking? And for... Full review

WOW WHEN I SAW THAT MOVIE I WAS WOWED BUT ITS A REALLY GOOD MOVIE JUST SOME OF THE PARTS OF THE MOVIEE WAS WOW!... Full review

Beloved is very long and could well be trimmed, but it is a complex story that does require time in the telling. The production design, glorious cinematography and Rachel Portman's multi-layered score is especially effective Beloved is a cinema lover's delight. ... Full Review

This extraordinary cast is supported by a setting rich in authentic, gritty historical detail and an exquisitely evocative score.....Just as effective are Winfrey and Glover;.... ... Full Review

Demme and cinematographer Tak Fujimoto keep Beloved mystical, spiritual, and emotional.....illed with some of the most extraordinary images of recent years, Jonathan Demme's Beloved was apparently too powerful for audiences to handle back in 1998.....There's substantial and vital social drama in this three-hour epic.... ... Full Review

Beloved'' is something rare: a brave film about the emotional toll of slavery, the anguish of memory and the cruel divisions that still sear African American lives. Winfrey delivers the goods with a credible performance that never capitalizes on her personality. ... Full Review

But Beloved is not relentlessly bleak; a strong sense of hope, friendship and battling-against-the-odds determination prevails. Clocking in at just under three hours, it wears you down; by the third act, emotional fatigue has set in to such a degree that what was harrowing in the first two acts has merely become boring or, even worse, unintentionally comic. ... Full Review

What films should be sought out immediately and what films should be used as this winter's kindling are mere moments away.Until next December, have fun at the movies! ... Full Article

regia di ..........................Jonathan Demme soggetto di ...................... dal romanzo di Toni Morrison sceneggiatura di..............Akousa Busia, Richard La Gravenese, Adam Brooks fotografia di .................... ... Full Article

One of the central themes of the film is motherhood. Oprah explained to Sheila McLennon from BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour how the film made her feel about having children of her own. ... Full Article

Beloved A dead child comes back as a deranged, adult-size woman. Chucky A dead adult comes back as a deranged, child-size doll. ...have similar scenes Beloved A ladybug-covered Beloved is reborn out of a river. ... Full Article

Sethe is a woman of elemental grace and unspoken mystery. A figure of fierce determination, Sethe is a runaway slave struggling to carve out her own simple existence with her children in rural Ohio, 1873. ... Full Article

The gravity of Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, the hype of Oprah Winfrey's 10-year crusade to adapt the book, the subject of slavery: Any one of these factors might be enough to bring a nervous movie fan to see Jackie... ... Full Article