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Fences: Directed by Denzel Washington. With Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo. A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
Maxson once dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player, but was deemed too old when the major leagues began admitting black athletes. Bitter over his missed opportunity, Troy creates further tension in his family when he squashes his son's chance to meet a college football recruiter. — Jwelch5742.
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Fences, the late August Wilson play adaptation, is a movie with universal messages about life, love, family, parenting and black identity. It shows the hardship of life in a common Africanamerican family set in the suburbs of Pittsburgh and the margins of society.
Movie of the Year FENCES towers among the essential tales of America. Denzel Washington and Viola Davis' thundering performances infuse lightning into the words of August Wilson's iconic stage play, sparking emotion to leap from the screen and live in the heart.
Rabbit-Proof Fence: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil. In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
The Fence: Directed by William Stone. With David Perkins, Eugene Simon, Deshaye Gayle, Gabriel Howell. Motorbikes, fast cars, punch-ups and 80's music. Set on the streets of 1980s Bristol (UK), this retro flick follows a council estate kid out to settle the score with local thieves.
Good Fences: Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Zachary Simmons Glover, Mo'Nique. Good Fences is about an upwardly-mobile Black family for whom the American dream becomes a nightmare.
Picket Fences: Created by David E. Kelley. With Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly. An aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.
Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. Director. Mark Herman.
