| Beloved Review |
| by Chuck Dowling |
| Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Irma
P. Hall, Jason Robards
Written by: Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese and Adam Brooks
Based on the novel by: Toni Morrison
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Running Time: 172 minutes
Date...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Greg King |
| BELOVED (M).
(Touchstone/Buena Vista International)
Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise,
Lisa Gay Hamilton, Irma P Hall, Albert Hall, Beah Richards, Kessia
Kordelle, Jude Ciccolella, Jason...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Luke Buckmaster |
| BELOVED
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah
Richards, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Albert Hall, Irma P. Hall
Director: Jonathan Demme
Screenplay: Adam Brooks, Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese based on the
novel by Toni...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz |
| BELOVED (director: Jonathan Demme; cast: Oprah Winfrey (Sethe), Danny
Glover (Paul D), Thandie Newton(Beloved), Kimberly Elise (Denver), Beah
Richards (Baby Suggs), Lisa
Gay Hamilton (Younger Sethe), Albert Hall (Stamp Paid), Irma P.
Hal(Ella) and Carol...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Dustin Putman |
| Directed by Jonathan Demme.
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton, Beah
Richards, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Albert Hall, Irma P. Hall.
1998 - 174 minutes.
Rated R (for profanity, violence, sexual situations, and nudity).
Reviewed...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Bob Bloom |
| Set in rural Ohio in 1873, the movie tells of Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), her
daughter, Denver (Kimberly Elise), Sethe's lover, Paul D (Danny Glover),
and the strange, young woman (Thandie Newton) who enters their lives. She
calls herself Beloved. more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Seth Bookey |
| One of the rules by which I judge a screen adaptation i that the director
make sure the movie stands on its own merits, and not the novels from
which they are derived. more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Matt Prigge |
| Director: Jonathan Demme
Writers: Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese, and Adam Brooks (based on
the novel by Toni Morrison)
Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise,
Beah Richards, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Albert Hall, Irma P. Hall more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Kleszczewski, Nicholas |
| I haven't read _Beloved_, but I can see why it was a prize-winning
novel. The story is of Sethe, her daughter Denver, and Paul D., who are
former slaves being terrorized by a poltergeist. Digging deeper, the
"ghost" aspect serves as a complex allegory...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Matt Williams |
| The movie Beloved is rather like it's title character: unusual,
disorienting and not quite what you'd expect. However, that's not to
say that the film isn't good (which it is), but rather that it's a
difficult beast to classify. It's eerily...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Kevin Patterson |
| BELOVED
Rating: **** (out of four)
R, 1998
Director: Jonathan Demme
Screenplay: Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese, Adam Brooks
Starring Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Brian Takeshita |
| The day after I saw this film, someone asked me if it was good or bad.
Honestly, it took me a few moments to come up with an answer. You see,
BELOVED, based on the novel by Toni Morrison, is good in so many ways, yet
terrible on such a fundamental level...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Walter Frith |
| Director Jonathan Demme's vision of slavery and the memories contained
in its after life in 'Beloved', based on Toni Morrison's novel are
haunting to say the least. Demme is a brilliant director. I'm hard
pressed to find a more chilling example of...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Craig Roush |
| Release Date: October 16, 1998
Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise,
Beah Richards
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
MPAA Rating: R (violent images, sexuality, nudity)
URL:...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Chris Webb |
| cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly
Elise, Beah Richards, Albert Hall, Irma P. Hall,
Kessia Randall, Lisa Gay Hamilton
directed by Jonathan Demme
written by Adam Brooks, Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese
based...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten |
| Reviewed by Harvey Karten, Ph.D.
Touchstone Pictures
Director: Jonathan Demme
Writer: Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese, Adam Brooks,
novel by Toni Morrison
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton,
Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards, Lisa Gay...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Mark O'Hara |
| In her 1988 novel Beloved, Toni Morrison mints the word "rememory."
Although Jonathan Demme's film does not make use of the word, its
connections are there, reminding us that memories are what we're made
of; more insistently, they are what we cannot...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Nathaniel R. Atcheson |
| Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah
Richards, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Albert Hall, Irma P. Hall
Screenplay: Adam Brooks, Akosua Busia, Ricahrd LaGravenese
Producers: Ronald M. Bozman, Jonathan...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Michael Dequina |
| Jonathan Demme's _Beloved_, based on Toni Morrison's Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel of the same name, is a movie of moments--moments of
raw, lyrical emotional power scattered over a nearly three-hour time
expanse. While the extended running time does...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by James Sanford |
| A film adaptation of a novel that's won both the Nobel and Pulitzer
Prizes -- as well as a devoted following worldwide -- would seem to be a
project fraught with potential pitfalls, especially when that novel is Toni
Morrison's "Beloved," a...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Scott Renshaw |
| BELOVED
(Touchstone)
Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise,
Beah Richards.
Screenplay: Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese and Adam Brooks, based on
the novel by Toni Morrison.
Producers: Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme,...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Edward Johnson-ott |
| Beloved (1998)
Oprah Winfrey (Sethe), Danny Glover (Paul D), Thandie Newton (Beloved),
Kimberly Elise (Denver), Beah Richards (Baby Suggs), Lisa Gay Hamilton
(Younger Sethe), Albert Hall (Stamp Paid), Irma P. Hall (Ella), Carol
Jean Lewis (Janey...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Susan Granger |
| Susan Granger's review of "BELOVED" (Touchstone Pictures)
Leave it to the resourceful Oprah Winfrey to insure that at
least three, perhaps four, fine black actors will get Academy Award
nominations this year. In this adaptation of Toni Morrison's...more |
| Beloved Review |
| by Victory Marasigan |
| Jonathan Demme's _Beloved_, based on the book Toni Morrison, is a
study in skillful literary adaptation. On the one hand, the film manages
to recreate key moments from the novel, evoking Morrison's pragmatic
narrative style without using her authorial...more |
