Sherman's March

Name: Sherman's March
Genre: Biography, History, Comedy, Romance, Documentary
Released: September 5, 1986
Duration: 157 min

1986

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Music Box Films | Release Date: September 5, 1986 | Not Rated

Summary: Armed with a 16mm camera and a grant to make a documentary about the lingering aftermath of William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 march to the sea, Ross McElwee gets sidetracked. After his girlfriend breaks up with him, Ross shifts his attention from the historical to the personal, to the battlefield of modern love, and embarks on a sociologicalArmed with a 16mm camera and a grant to make a documentary about the lingering aftermath of William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 march to the sea, Ross McElwee gets sidetracked. After his girlfriend breaks up with him, Ross shifts his attention from the historical to the personal, to the battlefield of modern love, and embarks on a sociological chronicle that documents the courting rites and rituals of the New South. A generous and humanistic portrait of several remarkable women that Ross meets along the way, Sherman’s March sketches its characters with novelistic sensitivity: Pat, an aspiring actress with a yen for Burt Reynolds; Claudia, a roller-skating interior designer; Jackie, the activist whose anti-nuclear advocacy dovetails with Ross’s deepest fears; and above all, Charleen Swansea, Ross’s mentor and a one-woman Greek chorus of unsolicited romantic counsel. … Expand

Genre(s): Biography, History, Comedy, Romance, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 157 min

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Vincent Canby

As Mr. McElwee fusses with himself for not getting on with his meditation on Sherman's march, and as the loose ends of his private life accumulate, a wonderfully goofy, pertinent movie comes into focus. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

In reconnecting us with the past, McElwee asks us to reconnect not only with each other but with our human spirit. Read full review

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