Cora Unashamed (2000)

Directed by

Deborah Pratt

Genre

tv movie, drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A black woman works as a maid for a white family in a small Midwestern town in the early 20th century. She endures personal tragedies and the casual racism of the town, but eventually confronts the hypocrisy of her employers.

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What happens

Cora Unashamed is a 2000 American made-for-television drama film from The American Collection directed by Deborah Pratt, starring Regina Taylor and Cherry Jones. The film was shot on location in October 1999 in central Iowa. Cities such as Ames, Cambridge and Story City were used. The movie is based on a short story by the same name in The Ways of White Folks, a 1934 collection of short stories by Langston Hughes. Cinematographer Ernest Holzman won an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series'/Pilot for Network or Basic Broadcast TV, for his work on this film. David Herbert Donald called the short story "a brilliantly realized portrait of an isolated black woman in a small Middle Western town, who stoically survives her own sorrows but in the end lashes out against the hypocrisy of the whites who employ her." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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