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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 08 November, 1998 DVD Release : 18 December, 2001 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Stereotypes abound in the fly-by epic of Mama Flora's Family |
| MAMA FLORA'S FAMILY is a sweeping chronicle of seventy years in the life and descendants of one Flora Henning Palmer. Cicely Tyson who seems to be forever cast in these roles portrays the adult Flora, a woman who has survived prejudice from her own people, the hard and unfair life of sharecropping,the removal of her first newborn son of a "high yellow" plantation owner's son,the growing up of her children, the murder of her husband at the hands of white men,the inner conflicts of her own children and her ever present faith that gives her the inner fortitude to carry on.
This is typically HALLMARK HALL OF FAME material made for television. The script is based upon some true characters from author of ROOTS Alex Haley's life.Unfortunately, the dialogue is pretty inane and the plot is formulaically predictable.MAMA FLORA'S does not have at all the intensity of ROOTS and seems very jammed into 140 minutes.Scenes and years fly by without proper time for real character development or time to digest anything.It seems that the writers seemed intent on cramming in 70 years of history without allowing much character conflict. What is there is very contrived despite all noble efforts to handle a very necessary subject.The talents of Queen Latifah, Blair Underwood and Mario Van Peebles are truly wasted in such a sanitized screenplay. The action and characters feel forced and contrived. Only Erika Alexander as the young woman Flora is allowed to show any depth of feeling in this "chock-full-get-it-all-in" made-for-television drama. HALLMARK lovers will adore this production.Everything is nice and tidy and "safe" in this 1998 melodrama epic.Anyone that demands more from scripts and actors will look elsewhere.One viewing will suffice. Better and more satisfying companion films would be WHEN WE WERE COLORED, THE COLOR PURPLE,BELOVED and THE GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI. |
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