White Man's Burden

White Man's Burden is a Fantastic movie With a great story and fantastic acting i love John Travolta he is one of my favorite actors the reverse sides was a diffrent kind of idea but it worked a fantastic movie one... Full review

This movie speaks volumes to how it is everyday for miniorities in America. I would reccomend this movie be watched in schools and communities everywhere. I would even reccomend it as a training tool for any diversity training program.... Full review

The movie does a great job of showing how a typical white collar white male & a blue collar black would behave if the black/white roles would be reversed. Throughout the movie you will not see one white in a white... Full review

Great film. Really makes you think...what if it was the other way around. I hope we could all get something out of this film. Wonderful job, acting by both characters. I do hope many will watch this one. It's one that... Full review

great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great Travolta. Great story. Sad end.... Full review

Great movie! Bumper Robinson is so goodlooking in this moive! The only reason people look down upon this movie, is because the movie depicts whites as the under appreciated minority.... Full review

I found this movie to be very thought provoking. I enjoyed it immensely, because it gave me the opportunity to envision myself as an oppressed minority in my own country. I did not like the movie at first, but then I... Full review

White Man's Burden spirals into tragedy but never into stirring drama.....You would have White Man's Burden , a low-budget, high-ambition thumb sucker.... ... Full Review

White Man's Burden" works better as a conventional urban drama than as an essay on race relations, which is its resolute purpose. Travolta and Belafonte play well off of each other, and the film is at its best exploring the prejudices and attitudes of their characters. ... Full Review

Travolta and Belafonte are charismatic actors, and it's interesting watching them play off each other. Defining them in terms of race, Nakano obligates himself not to give them any special traits, lest their applicability as representative samples be compromised. ... Full Review

The plot of White Man's Burden is capable of holding an audience's attention for most of its running time. Skin color swapping and facile assumptions about the relationship between race and economics are used more as cheap plot devices than as a basis for a probing examination of real issues. ... Full Review

A frustrating film with interesting ideas that never quite come together, "White Man's Burden" is well-intentioned and high-minded. As it is, the kidnapping plot, which makes up most of the movie, is just too routine, despite solid performances by Travolta and Bel-a-fonte. ... Full Review

"I would like to propose a toast," says a rich industrialist (Harry Belafonte), holding a wine glass aloft to celebrate his wife's work in social programs; seated at the dining room table at his opulent residence, smiling their comfortable smiles,... ... Full Article

The White Man's Burden is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling about the US conquest of the Philippines. Theodore Roosevelt, later to become one of the most celebrated of Presidents of the United States of America called it "rather poor... ... Full Article

In White Man's Burden , John Travolta plays a down-on-his-luck delivery boy who is fired unjustly and can't find other work.All of this transpires because African-Americans run the country and Travolta is in a minority group. ... Full Article

The book was better, but the movie, Thinner , was certainly admirable, too.Even if it differed quite a lot from the book, it still had that galvanizing StephenKing flair. ... Full Article

RACIAL ROLE reversal isn't a new cinematic subject.The 1964 "Black Like Me" disguised a white journalist as a black person.The 1949 "Pinky" gave us a black woman passing as white. ... Full Article

       Understanding the racial dynamics of American life is not an easy task.   It requires an ability to put ones self in the other persons shoes emotionally, economically and ethically.           Perhaps in a way that no other ... Full Article