| ABC | Season Premiere Date: February 25, 2008 |
Summary:
The Broadway cast, which includes Phylicia Rashad and Sean Combs, reunite in this TV revival of the award-winning play.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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Those three performances are so good that they lift up everyone around them, whether it's Combs (best whenever he has Rashad or McDonald to spar with) or John Stamos, surprisingly subtle in what could be a thankless role as the white man who doesn't want the Youngers moving into his neighborhood.
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It seems more a collection of cliches than the revered semiautobiographical work of the first black woman playwright to land on Broadway, a woman whose father fought a restrictive racial covenant all the way to the Supreme Court to keep his family's home in a white Chicago neighborhood in the '30s.
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Feb 27, 2008
Phenomenal performance by Audra McDonald.
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Mar 16, 2008
This was easily the best production I've seen on commercial television in years. I know it was risky and I certainly hope it was worth the risk to ABC and the advertisers. It was way worth it to me.
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Jun 27, 2008
I have read the book for this play and the movie is just as good if not better than the play. it shows how racism and the hardships of people can be overcome by staying together as a family. This is a must watch movie
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Feb 25, 2008
Unfortunately, I'm old enough to have seen Sidney, Claudia Mc neil, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the original movie. This film with Diddy is good but I don't think it will ever move me as much as the 1961 movie.
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Feb 26, 2008
This was a wonderful remake of this movie. I do not feel that Mr. Combs was as convincing in the role of Walter. Although he did do well, just over shadowed by the great women in the movie.
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Mar 27, 2008
Better Luck, Next Time. The women carried the show. I never felt the passion of Walter Lee Younger from Sean Combs (P.Diddy). P.Diddy should fall back, in performing the character Walter, and do what he does best as an Executive Producer - "Behind the Scene".
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Feb 26, 2008
Combs was awful, and the adaptation left out several key scenes form the play in favor of including dumbed-down sequences that attempted to emphasize the same problems the play dealt with much more powerfully.
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