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Release Date: 04 February, 2003 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $9.97 You SAVE: $10.01! Cast: Complete Cast (15 total) |
A Patch of Blue Reviews
Not Really Convinced..
I absolutely love films from this time period, and Sidney Poitier is clearly one of the most versatile and gifted actors of our time. That said, I'm not really sure what to think about this film. The scenes with Shelley Winters were raw and captivating, but somehow Poitier and Hartman's characters were a little too simplistically acted and (I'm REALLY SORRY Mr. Poitier) almost melodramatic. Regardless, I was hooked and watched the entire film (the soundtrack is absolutely breathtaking) but I definitely cringed on a few of the scenes. Check out "The Defiant Ones" for a better performance.
Sweet, thoughtful, moving drama
I rented this thinking it was "A Place in the Sun" (also with Shelley Winters)and so it took me a bit to not keep trying to work that story line into this one (when is he going to push Shelley off a boat, I kept wondering?):) Anyway, once I adjusted to the fact that this is a movie about an abused, lonely blind girl befriended by a black man, I found myself entranced with the lovely tale of friendship that forms under mutual adversity. Gordon (Sidney Poitier)helps blind Selina move towards a life of independence and freedom from her mean, domineering mother (Winters); Selina offers Gordon love and friendship in a biased, racist world. Takes no cheap shots and offers no simplistic answers and is even better becaus of that. Touching and disturbing both. Well worth locating and watching.
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