Black Girl

1972
PG
1 घं 37 मि

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6.8/10

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An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

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prose20770

Awesome

This was the first time I realized Ossie Davis had directed movies!! This is one of the best, angst-filled, coming of age stories I have ever seen. It should rank right up there with "A Member of the Wedding" and "To Kill A Mockingbird" as far as young girls seeking answers to life and trying to find their way. I miss Ossie Davis. He was an amazing talent to have been able to coalesce the right mood and tone for this movie from the perspective of a young girl. The cast was one of the most perfect I've seen since "A Raisin in the Sun" (Sidney Poitier version) and definitely, each actor seemed to squeeze the blood out of their respective roles. What perfection!

alis072

This Movie Was A Trip!!

Loved it! Loved it! Were some of the best movies made in the 1970's or what? The characters in this film were so real and foul-mouthed, it moved me. I was just a baby when this movie was made, but I could relate to the story. I caught the second half of this movie and could not move, it was so entertaining and well written. This is the type of movie our culture lacks today- Content. I have to have this movie in my DVD collection! I really would like to see more movies like this in theaters and on television. There was an underlying message amidst the great acting skills of the characters. My favorite characters were Norma and Billie Jean. I gotta see this movie again to catch the first half and get the overall message...

8yophiyo

Black Girl

Just as other writers on this page, I saw this movie on TV One. I caught it in the middle and watched it repeatedly as often as I could. I even would scan through the menu on cable to see when it would come again. But there is a GOD and I have it on DVD!!!! If you email me, I can let you know where I got it. The story is one of the greatest I've ever seen in depicting the human experience, especially in the black community. Whether or not I like the way the characters were depicted at the time, it is/was true of families today. I love this movie!!!!!! I remember seeing the eldest daughter, Norma, in "Which Way is Up?" as Richard Pryor's father's wife (if that makes sense). But I haven't seen any other actors (except Brock Peters) in other films. This movie is truly one of the best and should be discovered by all.

7JohnSeal

Well acted adaptation of stage play

Black Girl, originally a play by Texas born writer J. E. Franklin, was adapted for the screen by Franklin and directed by the great Ossie Davis. The result is a stagey but effective extended family drama, with three sisters (Gloria Edwards, Loretta Greene, and Peggy Pettit) plotting against the successful adopted fourth daughter (Leslie Uggams). Brock Peters is top-billed as the father of the girls, but his performance is little more than a glorified cameo, and it's up to the women to carry the show. Most effective are Greene, as the pregnant middle daughter, Louise Stubbs as the mother, and Claudia McNeill as the grandmother and matriarch of the family. Less effective is Uggams, whose droopy eyed look simply doesn't evince much sympathy, and Edwards, who is over the top at times as the eldest and meanest sibling. There's a brief non-speaking appearance by Mrs. Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and a sterling performance by an uncredited gentlemen who plays Mr. Herbert, a boarder who has shacked up with McNeill's character. This film is all about the characters, and there are some meaty scenes, especially when Uggams returns home from college unannounced. The film was clearly a labour of love, and all things considered, is a simple but solid effort, quite moving at times and generally effective.

6Uriah43

When Misery Loves Company

This film essentially revolves around a woman by the name of "Mama Rose" (Louise Stubbs) who has three teenage daughters named "Norma" (Gloria Edwards), "Ruth Ann" (Rhetta Greene), "Billie Jean" (Peggy Pettit). The first two were fathered by a man named "Earl" (Brock Peters) who Mama Rose kicked out of the house because he cheated on her. Billie Jean, on the other hand, had a different father who apparently ran off when she was younger and as a result Mama Rose has had to raise all of her children with her own mother who everyone calls "Mu' Dear" (Claudia McNeil). Also living in this small house is Mu' Dear's elderly male companion by the name of "Herbert" (Kent Martin) who pays half the rent. It should also be noted that Mama Rose also has a foster daughter named "Netta" (Leslie Uggams) who she took in when she was quite young and who is currently in college trying to become a teacher. In that regard, both Norma and Ruth Ann have acquired a great dislike for her because she is trying to make something of herself. Likewise, neither of these two young women like their half-sister Billie Jean either because she is trying to pursue her own dream of becoming a dancer--while they feel destined for a life of poverty and hopelessness. As a result, both Norma and Ruth Ann do everything they can to make life miserable for Billie Jean and diminish Mama Rose's love for Netta. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this turned out to be a deep and interesting film which sheds a glimmer of light upon the struggles of ordinary people within the black community trying to make it in urban America in the early 70's. Admittedly, there were some scenes which seemed a bit too gloomy at times and the film is rather dated as well. Even so, I thought it was worth the time spent and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

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This is Leslie Uggams's first feature film.

गूफ़
When Netta is talking to Ruth Ann about "white boys at college", she crosses her arms. The camera angle shifts to the opposite side of her and she crosses them again although she had not previously uncrossed them.

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Mama Rose: [Billie Jean is sulking in her bedroom. There is a bump at the door] Open this door, girl!
[Billie Jean opens the door to see Mama Rose carrying groceries across the room to the kitchen]
Mama Rose: Billie Jean, ain't I tell you to keep this door open? Now open that other door!
Billie Jean: [opening Kitchen door to let Mama Rose through to set bags on the counter] Oh Mama, sometimes I be in here undressing and Mr. Herbert just walk in here without even knocking.
Mama Rose: [putting groceries away throughout] You don't be undressing all the time. You keep these doors locked, Billie Jean. And who you think you're talking to? Besides, Mr. Herbert done seen plenty kinds of whatever you trying to hide.
Billie Jean: If Mr. Herbert was married to Ma Dear, that would be different, Mama. But he ain't no kin to nobody in this house.
Mama Rose: Now that ain't none of your business, Billie Jean. As far as you concerned, Mr. Herbert pay half the rent on this house and he's a roomer here.
Billie Jean: If he a roomer, how come he ain't got no room to himself?
Mama Rose: Now that ain't none of your business, Billie Jean, who my mama has in her room. You keep your trap shut about it, or get out and get a place of your own.
Billie Jean: You're mighty funny when Netta's momma went crazy and she ain't have no place to stay, you opened your big heart and welcomed her in this house. How come I got to get out...
Mama Rose: [Facing her] BECAUSE Netta's got sense enough to stay in school and get something in her head instead of her tail.
Billie Jean: [At this, Billie Jean walks back into her room where she sees two kids at the door sticking their tongues at her] You ugly bastards!
[She chases them out and slams the door]
Mama Rose: [Running in the room and grabbing Billie Jean] Girl, do you want me to get a stick and beat all the black off of you? Now you must have forgotten what a good beating feel like. Now you better snap out of whatever it is that's on your mind, you hear me?
[Billie looks away for a second, then Mama Rose drags her to the bed and sits her down]
Mama Rose: Don't you roll your eyes at me. This ain't Dear you playing with, you understand me?
Billie Jean: Yes ma'am Momma, I wasn't rolling my eyes at you.
Mama Rose: And Dear better not come to me no more and tell me you sassed her or Herbert or it's gonna be woe be onto you.
Ruth Ann: [coming in mad] Billie Jean, what did you call my baby?
Billie Jean: He was sticking his tongue out at me.
Ruth Ann: That don't give you no right to call him no bastard! A bastard is a child that ain't got no daddy and my child got a daddy!
[she walks away]
Mama Rose: She's just smelling her piss, that's all. Now you're getting your tail out of here tomorrow and finding yourself a job.
[Rose starts to go back to the kitchen]
Norma: [Standing at the door] She already got a job, Mama.
Mama Rose: Already got one? Where?
Norma: At the Groovy Bar and Grill down on Second and Ward.
Mama Rose: At the Groovy Bar and Grill? Doing what?
Billie Jean: Doing that ballet dancing
Billie Jean: It ain't no ballet dancing.
Norma: P-A-L-L-E-T is pallet, ain't it? Well, B-A-L-L-E-T gots to be ballet.
Billie Jean: It ain't even that kind of dancing.