Good Fences

2003

Action / Comedy / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 61%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 61% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 975 975

1970s connecticut racial prejudice

Plot summary

Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to move his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Director

Ernest R. Dickerson Photo
Ernest R. Dickerson

Top cast

Whoopi Goldberg Photo
Whoopi Goldberg as Mabel Spader
Mo'Nique Photo
Mo'Nique as Ruth Crisp
Roger Dunn Photo
Roger Dunn as Lieutenant Govenor
Marie V. Cruz Photo
Marie V. Cruz as Mrs. Suziharo
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1 hr 58 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by nrdean

Breaking from the mold ..

I believe some of the past "critics" are delving too deep. I don't believe this movie was supposed to be a upbeat comedy of such. This is a dark comedy/drama and a portrayal of the way a specific family dealt with engaging with the white community in a time when that was not easily done. I believe the scenes with 'Mabel' showing the bored housewife over the course of many years shows how more and more depressed over the situation she has become. She has lost touch with herself, her identity, her roots. She makes a statement saying that all she has to do is "listen to Tom" instead of listening to God. The son feels as if he is out of touch with his "people" and struggles to regain that sense of himself, while the sister shows that in the end, she has rejected all that makes her Black. Tom has let the influence of his childhood (almost getting lynched, struggling against white America) influence how he acts in the present. He rejects the things that make him unique (being Black), even though those things impact everything about him daily. This movie has little to do with "racial motivations" and such. It has more to do with Blacks finding their way while not losing themselves in a predominately white world. This movie is a great movie to show the other side of the coin. Black people (and minorities of color) have to deal with trying to fit in to multiple "lives" and find a way to incorporate all of them without losing a sense of self. Danny and Whoopi did a great job of portraying this, even if it did obviously make others thumb up their noses.
Reviewed by mimiybyazphil 3 / 10

Monique can only play ONE character!!

This movie was ok, but, the presense of Monique,playing HARD CORE GHETTO, as usual ruined it for me! The idea that anyone, let alone a Black woman, would leave sunny Florida to move to cold, snowy Conneticut is ridiculous! Another thing that bothered me is Whoopi's AWFUL looking wigs!
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