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Beloved
Directed by
Jonathan Demme
R
1998
2h 52m
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A slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman.
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Cast of Beloved
Oprah Winfrey
Sethe
Danny Glover
Paul D
Thandiwe Newton
Beloved
Kimberly Elise
Denver
Beah Richards
Baby Suggs
LisaGay Hamilton
Younger Sethe
Albert Hall
Stamp Paid
Irma P. Hall
Ella
Carol Jean Lewis
Janey Wagon
Kessia Embry
Amy Denver
Jude Ciccolella
Schoolteacher
Anthony Chisholm
Langhorne
Dorothy Love Coates
M. Lucille Williams
Jane White
Lady Jones
Yada Beener
Denver aged 9
Emil Pinnock
Howard aged 14
Calen Johnson
Buglar aged 13
George E. Ray
Reverend Pike
Wes Bentley
Schoolteacher's Nephew
Dashiell Eaves
Schoolteacher's Nephew
Tyler Hinson
Baby Beloved
Brian Hooks
Young Paul D
Angie Utt
Mrs. Garner
Hill Harper
Halle
Jim Roche
String Show Barker
Vertamae Grosvenor
Grace
Ramona Castle
Carnival Kid
Brooklyn James
Carnival Kid
Nora Marlowe
Carnival Kid
Frederick Strother
African Savage
Lillian Smith
Lemonade Server
Aliya Robinson
Denver's Carnival Friend
Joe Toutebon
Frenchie
Brittany Hawkins
Young Girl Sethe
Alerte Belance
Nan
Ayoka Dorsey
Sethe's Mother
Ashleigh Watson
Baby Denver
Dajon Matthews
Howard aged 5
Norris Wiggins Jr.
Buglar aged 4
Harry Northup
Sheriff
Tracey Walter
Slave Catcher
Terel Gibson
Buglar aged 21
Damani Baker
Howard aged 22
Robert W. Castle
Mr. Sawyer
Paul Lazar
General Store Proprietor
Leigh Smiley
General Store Helper
Lewis 'Jiggs' Walker
Good Samaritan
Dan Olmstead
Policeman
Charles Glenn
Helpful Gentleman
Jason Robards
Mr. Bodwin
Anthony S. Calypso
Denver's Boyfriend
Karen Vicks
The Thirty Women
Thelma Houston
The Thirty Women
Willa Ward
The Thirty Women
Louise Johnson
The Thirty Women
Pauletta Washington
The Thirty Women
Jacqueline Celestin Fils-Aimé
The Thirty Women
Harold Gould
Barber Shop Man #4 (uncredited)
Charles Napier
Angry Carny (uncredited)
Joey Perillo
Carnival Barker (uncredited)
Beloved Reviews
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
The result is an extraordinary film that is always hypnotically watchable, even as it presents the audience with scenes of harrowing pain.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Beloved has moments of keening power and terrifying poetry.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
It's an ambitious epic, an A-list event that, despite a flawless pedigree, seems to prove Morrison right: Her work is unfilmable.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elvis Mitchell
It's a daring and provocative collection of ideas and heart that needed to be better, but still has something going for it.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Holleman
Beloved is a good movie. With a tighter ending, a shorter running time and fewer special effects, it could have been a great one.
New York Daily News
Dave Kehr
Commendably serious and uncompromising.
Newsday
Jack Mathews
Though the fantasy element redone sparingly in the movie, they give it the feel of a good horror-mystery.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Beloved forces the audience to look at slavery the way Schindler's List made it look at the Holocaust, and, if anything, it's even harder to watch.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Although Winfrey is hardly alone up there on the screen, her individual acting achievement cannot be dismissed.
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Using overwhelmingly potent performances, audacious static close-ups, assertive lighting, and a rigorous yet lyrical interweaving of events... this terrifyingly beautiful movie blends metaphor and stark social commentary to achieve a spontaneous grace.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
A movie that requires the viewer to meet it halfway. Those willing to make the effort will be rewarded with an exquisitely photographed and intricately layered drama.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Demme's Beloved is permanently heated to the boil. Rightly so, for the terrain of Toni Morrisons magisterial novel, on which the movie is based, is not the politics of slavery but its private agonies, the torture of evil turned inward against the self.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Beloved is a strong, dark, tangled powerhouse of a film that comes to grips with the scars of slavery as no previous American film has.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Demme succeeds uncannily well in bringing the novel's pulse to the screen.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Something rare: a brave film about the emotional toll of slavery, the anguish of memory and the cruel divisions that still sear African American lives.
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
Filled with some of the most extraordinary images of recent years, Beloved was apparently too powerful for audiences to handle back in 1998.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
It's a noble, ambitious failure, but a failure nonetheless.
Associated Press
Ted Anthony
A disappointment a hodgepodge of images and unsatisfying storytelling.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
What's right in Beloved is powerfully right: its portrait of a tortured mother seeking forgiveness, its shocking depiction of slavery as a wrecker of bodies and a crusher of souls. What's wrong in the film, though, is dreadfully wrong.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A knot of fierce emotions that is left for the viewer to untangle. Make the effort.
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