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I Liked it for What it Is.
I'm sorry to say I never saw the uncut version of this movie, nor have I gotten around to reading the book (yet), but I bought this movie a few weeks ago and couldn't tear myself away. If anybody loves women's issues in any context, it's yours truly, and this movie made a huge impact on me.

Oprah Winfrey always has her heart in the right place, even if she often seems to choose projects that come up short in the eyes of others. Hey, I like Oprah, but I don't love her like others seem to do, and she CAN act. I found her performance as Mattie Michael both touching and strong. In fact, I wanted to beat her daddy with something worse than the broom he attacked her with, and I think Mattie was an amazingly strong woman in the face of all her woes. Hell, I would have crumpled in 20 minutes!

The Women of Brewster place shows a community of people--not just the women--who have little materialistically, but are rich in friendship and concern for each other. My favorite characters would have to be Luciela (played by the underrated and extremely talented Lynn Whitfield) and her sad situation with a selfish husband, and the middle class girl Kiswana (Robin Givens) who really tries hard to make a difference as she turns her back a bit unfairly on her priviledged upbringing. Cicely Tyson is only in the movie for 5 minutes, but what a great performance she turns in as she tells her daughter Kiswana/Melanie what's what. Her performance made me want to stand up and cheer, but I also understood that Kiswana had to follow her heart and try to make that difference.

The movie made me laugh, cry, and think, but most of all it brought across one crucial point: people can tear down the walls of oppression if they stand together rather than just let a few people do it alone in vain. That is a very good, encouraging message indeed.

A must see
This is a depressing movie but it's also beautiful at the same time. I would recommend this movie to anyone.

I got Shafted!!!!
When this movie came on T.V. many years ago, I recorded it, edited out the commercials and everything. So when it finally was released on D.V.D. I jumped at the chance to have a better quality version.

I even gave my V.H.S. copy to my mother. Man, was I ever disappointed, the movie is missing critical scenes. Too many to even describe in this review!! I thought because [...] that that was the problem, but after reading so many other reviews that basically are saying the same thing, I can see I wasn't the only one who got shafted.
And to make things worse, my mother won't give me the V.H.S. version back!!!

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