Good Fences (2003)

Directed by

Ernest Dickerson

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A black family moves to a wealthy white suburb in the 1970s. They face prejudice and the pressure to fit in, which strains their marriage and home life. The husband works too hard to succeed, while his wife tries to keep the family together.

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What happens

Good Fences is a 2003 American comedy-drama television film directed by Ernest Dickerson and written by Trey Ellis, based on the 1997 novel of the same name by his wife Erika Ellis. The film is about the stresses of prejudice on an upwardly mobile black family in 1970s Greenwich, Connecticut. Danny Glover plays the overworked, stressed husband and Whoopi Goldberg plays his steadfast wife. Good Fences was produced by Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. It premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on Showtime on February 2, 2003. Goldberg won an Image Award for her role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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