Boycott

2001

Action / Drama / History

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 78% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 1206 1.2K

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Plot summary

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Director

Clark Johnson Photo
Clark Johnson

Top cast

Robert C. Treveiler Photo
Robert C. Treveiler as Jail Clerk
Terrence Howard Photo
Terrence Howard as Ralph Abernathy
Marion Guyot Photo
Marion Guyot as Virginia Durr
CCH Pounder Photo
CCH Pounder as Jo Ann Robinson
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1.01 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   es  
29.97 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds ...
2.08 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   es  
29.97 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by arlenedorrough 7 / 10

Could have been better

I really liked this movie. It narrates the story of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955.With regard to the casting choices, the story and the performances, it is stellar indeed, and deserving of a much higher rating. This movie's Achilles heel is the hubris of its director, Clark Johnson. Overdone, movie treatments, and stylized effects used to 'enhance' the story only served to take away from, an already engaging film of resistance, resourcefulness and focus on the successes of a galvanized Civil Rights movement. I watch it for brilliant performances of Jeffrey Wright and Carmen Ejogo, who went on to play Coretta King in Selma, with David Ouelowo (even more brilliant as MLK). I watch it for the choice to add Bayard Rustin, in the narrative.This movie was wonderfully acted by all, even the small parts were done brilliantly, some of that was due to the director, and editor. The writing is beautiful and human and rich with meaning. All of this serves to make the mis-steps more jarring.So, while this movie remains watchable and even enjoyable, it does so despite its director than because of him. PS stop the movie before Dr. King rides the bus to the future and greets young people to 'rap' with. That part was truly cringeworthy. (shudder)
Reviewed by lastliberal 8 / 10

A fitting tribute to Coretta Scott King

While thousands of mourners poured into the Georgia Capitol rotunda on Saturday to pay tribute to Coretta Scott King, the first woman and the first black person to lie in honor in what once was once a seat of segregation, I revisited events that occurred in the beginning of the Civil Rights movement by watching Boycott. Carmen Ejogo did an outstanding job playing Mrs. King, and Terrance Howard was equally good as the Rev. Abernathy. I hope to get a chance to see him in Hustle & Flow, as I remember him being fantastic in Crash. Jeffrey Wright came a long way from his role as Peoples in Shaft to play the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. I have several films on my list to see that he plays in and I am looking forward to seeing him in those roles. Boycott was a revealing and fascinating look at people's struggle for respect.
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