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Beloved, 1998

Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover

Directed by: Jonathan Demme

Written by: Akosua Busia

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 172 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:5.7

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Beloved can be described as atmospheric, contemplative, and gloomy. The plot revolves around psychological motives, supernatural occurences, and hopes. The main genre is drama. In approach, Beloved is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is located in Kentucky, Ohio, and Colorado. Beloved takes place in the 19th century. It is based on a book.

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Oprah Winfrey collaborated with director Jonathan Demme (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) for this African American ghost story, set in 1870s Ohio. Demme adapted it from Toni Morrison's Pulitzer-winning book. Former slave Sethe (Winfrey) lives with her daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise) in a house haunted by the malignant spirit of Sethe's long-dead infant. Sethe is also haunted by memories of her life of slavery at Sweet Home, the Kentucky plantation where she was raised. Enter Paul D. (Danny Glover), a fellow slave from Sweet Home, who stays at the house to start a new life with Sethe and Denver. Unfortunately their plans for happiness are foiled with the unexpected arrival of Beloved (Thandie Newton), a mysterious woman that may be the physical manifestation of Sethe's dead child. Horrifying secrets are revealed leading to a shattering climax.

Exquisite cinematography by Tak Fujimoto gives the film its stark beauty, and the performances are all splendid, particularly Winfrey's, and Newton's as the strange, hissing girl-child. Evocative recreations of the time, and disturbing flashbacks to the terrors of Sweet Home are interwoven to create a harrowing, vivid portrait of a life of freedom still haunted by ghosts of America's shameful past.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	8 October 1998
Runtime:	172 min

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Oprah Winfrey

as Sethe

Danny Glover

as Paul D Garner

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TV Guide

They've taken material with the power to insinuate itself directly into the realm of the imagination, and made it strangely inert and lifeless. Full Review

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by: Sandra Contreras

Rolling Stone

What is surprising -- remarkable even -- is that Beloved arrives onscreen with a minimum of dull virtue, gagging uplift and slick Hollywood gloss. Full Review

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by: Peter Travers

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