Beloved (1998)

6.3	Listal rating
5.6	IMDB rating

Directed by

Jonathan Demme

Starring (View all)

Sethe

Paul D Garner

Beloved

Denver

Beah Richards

Baby Suggs, aka Grandma Baby

Lisa Gay Hamilton

Younger Sethe

Albert Hall

Stamp Paid

Irma P. Hall

Ella

Written by (View all)

Toni Morrison

(novel)

Akosua Busia

(screenplay) and

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Description: Shortly after the Civil War, former slave Sethe lives with her grown daughter, Denver, outside Cincinnati. Sethe is stolid and hard working; Denver wants society. Paul D, a former slave who knew Sethe, happens on them and joins the farm and family, but not before the house rattles and pitches, as if spirits reject Paul D's coming. Nex ... (more)

Release date : 16 October 1998
UPC: 717951002365

Drama (4), Based On A Novel (2), Slavery (2), Contact (2), Dreaming (2), Evolution (2), Illness (2), Relationships (2), Negativity (2), Journeying (2), Incarnations (2), Ghost (2), 1990s (1), (1), Based On Book (1), Box Office Flop (1), Spiritual Cinema (1), 1998 (1), SnP (1), Sort (1)

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" Synopsis Set shortly after the Civil War, the story revolves around Sethe, a hard working former slave who currently resides on the outskirts of Cincinnati with her grown daughter Denver. Inexplicably, a young woman named "Beloved" who walks and speaks awkwardly as well as behaves in a childlike manner, one day shows up to their house resulting in a story of personal growth and mutual understanding. Starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Thandie Newton. "

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"Thandie Newton The thing that makes Newton’s role in Demme’s so tough to play is that there really was no reference point for her from which to begin constructing her title character. This was a creation that was one hundred percent original, born of an alchemy between author Toni Morrison’s words, Demme’s atmospheric direction and Newton’s imagination. As a mystery woman who rises from a primordial swamp and wreaks havoc as she seeps into the lives of freed former slaves, Newton had t"