Rosewood

Name: Rosewood
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Released: February 21, 1997
Duration: 140 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Don Cheadle, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames

1997

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: February 21, 1997 | R

Starring: Don Cheadle, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames

Summary: This film is a dramatic adaptation of a racially-charged historical event that took place in central Florida in 1923.

Director: John Singleton

Genre(s): Action, Drama, History

Rating: R

Runtime: 140 min

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Keith Phipps

Deliberately paced at the outset, the film slowly establishes a sense of hatred that makes the violent explosion of the film's second half as plausible and inevitable as the laws of physics. Read full review

Marc Savlov

The director is unflinching in his portrayal of the horrors that occurred, and nearly all the characters, from Voight's Wright to Rhames' Mann, are wonderfully nuanced, desperately believable creations. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Despite an occasional narrative hiccup, this is a rich and moving motion picture. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Ultimately, however, the film's ambition, urgency and acute observations prevail over the many stock elements to forge an estimable work that is notably serious and analytical for a Hollywood-produced film in this day and age. Read full review

Bill Stamets

As a director, Singleton shares with Furious a didactic streak. Singleton is no demagogue, but his fast-action style tends to erase the nuances of interracial dynamics. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

As written by Gregory Poirier and produced by Jon Peters, whose credits are mostly of the blockbuster variety, the film is broader and more simplistic than it needs to be, settling more than it should for obvious emotions and situations. Read full review

Rick Groen

Watching this, we should feel an immense amount, but don't, and somehow, decades after this horrible event, that void only seems to compound the tragedy. Read full review

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bdjude

Jun 10, 2018

One of the most memorable historical event in a movie. But, unfairly underrated as customary US style when trivia movies goes higher when the best ones go unnoticed - Sad !

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OnAnarchy

Nov 27, 2012

This one of the better films released in the past 20 years, and yet it rarely gets enough credit. Excellent acting from Don Cheadle and VIng Rhames anchor this tale of a race riot in 1920's Florida. While the action scenes are unrealistic and the violence overexaggerated, it's still aThis one of the better films released in the past 20 years, and yet it rarely gets enough credit. Excellent acting from Don Cheadle and VIng Rhames anchor this tale of a race riot in 1920's Florida. While the action scenes are unrealistic and the violence overexaggerated, it's still a well-constructed film with an excellent score and riveting drama.… Expand

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