Word: belovedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ohio, 1873, eight years after the Civil War, 18 years after Sethe ran away from the Sweet Home plantation. She had been defiled by the master's sons, then beaten so artistically that her back remains latticed with scars. Now Sethe lives with her teenage daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise) at...
Beloved will wreak much mischief as she befriends the three living residents of this haunted house, sparking jealousy, infidelity and finally scandal among the good ladies of the emerging black middle class. In Sethe, who believes her to be her dead child revived, Beloved cues the brutal hierarchy of a...
With just four major characters, a family in the vise of the past, a haunted house and nearly three hours of running time, the Beloved film suggests a sultry cousin of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Demme, in working with screenwriter Adam Brooks on the...
In another sense, Winfrey's production of Beloved is a logical extension of her TV book club; it brings a novel she loves to millions, who can read it at the movies. Morrison was an early beneficiary of Oprah's literary saleswomanship; her 1977 Song of Solomon was the book...
But none of Morrison's novels had been filmed, and that was fine with her. "I was always annoyed," says the author and Princeton professor, "when my students would ask, 'When is there going to be a movie?' I told them that a novel is not what happens before the...