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Mood:
- EmotionalCaptivatingThought ProvokingDisturbingRoughSincereTouching
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Plot:
- Fighting the SystemLeadershipRise To the TopRacismAmbitionHopesLife is a BitchSociety more...
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Genres:
- DramaHistoricalPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century40s50s60s
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Place:
- HarlemNew YorkUSA
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- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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Style:
- Epic
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Based on:
- Based on BookBiographyBased on True Story
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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- ProfanityViolent Content
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Malcolm X, 1992
English
USA
Profile of Malcolm X
The mood of Malcolm X is thought provoking, emotional, and captivating. The plot centers around leadership, racism, and a rise to the top. It is a drama, period, and historical movie. Stylistically, Malcolm X is epic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Malcolm X is set in Harlem. It happens in the 1950s and in the 1960s. It is drawn from a biography, originally a true story, and based on a book. Malcolm X is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes profanity and violent content.
Summary of Malcolm X
Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance) to the big screen in this sprawling, epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm Little, son of a Nebraska preacher, on May 19, 1925, he became one of the most militant leaders and charismatic spokesmen of the black liberation movement before his assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on February 21, 1965. The film sweeps through his early life as a small-time hustler and thief with his friend Shorty (Lee), his conversion to Islam in jail, and his subsequent life as a controversial spiritual leader and husband of Betty Shabazz (Angela Bassett). Malcolm's tragic assassination is presented as a conspiracy of Nation of Islam leaders; the film shows how his philosophy has been realized in the lives of others who have been moved by his words. Filmed with great visual flair by Lee, the film is a work of entertainment as much as it is a historical artifact. Washington captures the spiritual conversion of the hero with a sincerity that is entirely as believable and ultimately moving as it was in the book that inspired the film, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 18 November 1992 |
| Runtime: | 202 min |
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as Malcolm X
as Shorty
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Critics Reviews
Variety
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- by: Staff(not credited)
The New Yorker
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- by: Terrence Rafferty
Users Reviews
- 23.January.2009
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- by: Alex Stajos
- Alex Stajos rated this movie
8/10Great
