Uncle Tom's Cabin - DVD (Phylicia Rashad)

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Uncle Tom's Cabin 1987 |DVD

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Format :DVD
Avery Brooks,Phylicia Rashad,Samuel Jackson (yes he's in this too)
Genre : / Drama//black history//Slavery

Directed by Stan Lathan

For years, the name "Uncle Tom" and the title Uncle Tom's Cabin have been synonymous with the most egregious form of racial condescension. John Gay's script for the 1987 film version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin hoped to "set the record straight" and restored the reputation of the 1852 abolitionist novel--mostly by returning to the source. Eliminating such theatrical "improvements" as Eliza's crossing the ice, this adaptation of Cabin depicts Uncle Tom (Avery Brooks) as an intelligent, non-submissive slave (there is only the slightest hint of "revisionism"); likewise, Jenny Lewis is a fully three-dimensional Little Eva. Simon Legree is as hateful as ever, but as played by Edward Woodward, Legree is shown to be more a product of his times than a cardboard hissable villain. Gay is very careful in his depiction of precocious preteen slave girl Topsy (Endyia Kinney), who still is so sexually misinformed that she believes she "just growed," but is not quite the mental midget described in Mrs. Stowe's novel. Produced for the Showtime Cable service, Uncle Tom's Cabin premiered on June 13, 1987.

uncut VHS transfer

This is on DVD-R.

 

 

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Rachel 7th Nov 2021

Uncle Tom's Cabin

I've been looking for this on DVD for years! Have an old VHS copy and our school equipment will no longer support it. Plus I'm sure it sill pop soon. This copy is of great quality! Thank you so much!!

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