Black Girl (1972 film)
7 /10 1 Votes
Written by J. E. Franklin Duration Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 9, 1972 (1972-11-09) Writer J.E. Franklin (play), J.E. Franklin (screenplay) Cast (Netta), (Mu' Dear), (Earl), Rhetta Greene (Ruth Ann (as Loretta Greene)), Louise Stubbs (Mama Rose), Peggy Pettit (Billie Jean)Similar movies The Mack , Willie Dynamite , I'm Gonna Git You Sucka , Darktown Strutters , Friday Foster , Cleopatra Jones Tagline She's got to cut it... or cut out. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black Girl is a 1972 American drama film directed by Ossie Davis based on the 1969 play by playwright J. E. Franklin.
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Plot
A family drama about a young woman who defies the low expectations thrust upon her and pursues her dream of becoming a dancer. An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Cast
Reception
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it three out of four stars and wrote, "Black Girl is a movie so filled with things it wants to say that sometimes the messages are lost in a confusion of story lines. A more disciplined movie might have been made by eliminating some of the material and organizing the rest, but I'm not sure it would have been a better movie, or a more moving experience." Roger Greenspun of The New York Times wrote, "I suspect that the real difference between the successful play and the failed movie lies in Ossie Davis's direction, which ranges from pedestrian to downright helpless." Variety quoted their own review, which called it "the best study of Negro family life since Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun".
References
Black Girl (1972 film) WikipediaBlack Girl (1972 film) IMDb Black Girl (1972 film) themoviedb.org