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- On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 87% based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "In some respects, Rosewood struggles to present a full picture of the real-life tragedy it dramatizes, but it remains a harrowing depiction of racial violence."
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5 min read. John Singleton’s “Rosewood” re-creates the story of a shameful event in American history, the race riot by whites against blacks in 1922 in the small Florida town of Rosewood, which left the town in smoking ruin while dozens of its residents were shot, burned to death or lynched.
Rosewood (1997) is powerful as hell. Wow. Considering the events going on, this movie is incredibly powerful. I sat there with my jaw dropped. In rural Florida, 1922, a white woman is cheating on her husband and argues with her white lover. He beats her up.
Rosewood: Directed by John Singleton. With Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill. A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.
- (9K)
- Action, Drama, History
- John Singleton
- 1997-02-21
Rosewood is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by John Singleton, inspired by the 1923 Rosewood massacre in Florida, when a white mob killed black people and destroyed their town. In a major change, it stars Ving Rhames as an outsider who comes into Rosewood and inspires residents to self-defense, wielding his pistols in a fight.
It's certainly not Singleton's best, and sometimes it feels like a tv movie, but it is still a good film. Rosewood is no easy film to sit through; watching a lynch mob murder innocent people (and knowing it is based on a true story) is almost physically painful -- but that also makes the film important.
Rosewood, Florida, is a small, peaceful town with an almost entirely African-American population of middle-class homeowners, until New Year's Day 1923, when a lynch mob from a neighboring white...
- (55)
- History, Drama
- R
Rosewood was the best work in the career of John Singleton (“Boys N the Hood”), a criminally overlooked film. 142 minutes long, but doesn’t feel long. In 1923 Rosewood, Florida, a predominantly black town, Ving Rhames is a prospector unjustifiably sought for rape of a lying white woman.
