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Starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover...
Beloved begins with the reunion of Sethe and Paul D (Danny Glover), a sweet-natured former slave whom Sethe has not seen in eighteen years. Paul D, dusty and hardened but always with a twinkle in his eye, wants to start a new life with Sethe and her quiet daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise), who is bright and beautiful but is also being suffocated by her mother's overprotective rein. All goes well at first as Paul D begins to unlock Sethe's heart and melt Denver's cold demeanor through his natural charm and exuberance. But their fragile existence becomes...
...imagine how Jerry Springer would herald her performance: Oprah makes love with a naked Danny Glover! Oprah squats and urinates! Oprah as Sethe: Victim or murderer? The story is based on the true case of Margaret Garner, a renegade slave who tried to kill her children rather than allow them to be returned to the plantation from which she had escaped. In the novel, Sethe is pursued by the spirit of the one child, Beloved, who died at her hand. But the film is really about the things we do for love, about the fatal consequences of moral strength, about...
...women are used to these seismic spectral disruptions, but Paul D (Glover), another wounded veteran of Sweet Home, is not. As much as he wants to stay with Sethe, to rest in her powerful arms, 124 gives him the creeps. And when a strange young woman (Thandie Newton) comes to live with them, he is made more restless still. She wheezes and snores; she moves like a puppet on tangled strings. Asked her name, she spells it out in her croaking voice...
...called Winfrey and asked, "Now what do I have to do?" Finding a director was that simple. Making the movie was harder--not just re-creating Reconstruction-era Cincinnati in today's Philadelphia and Delaware but also finding the crucially right actors for four shifting, demanding roles, in which Glover would be the only other star. Newton, the Anglo-African actress who illuminated Flirting and Jefferson in Paris, came to the first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood...