The Piano Lesson (1995) [VHS]

The Piano Lesson (1995) [VHS]
by Lloyd Richards (II)

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Actor: Alfre Woodard, Carl Gordon, Charles S. Dutton, Lou Myers, Tommy Hollis
Director: Lloyd Richards (II)
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 104 minutes
Release Date: 1999-01-12
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Hallmark
Studio: Hallmark

VHS Movie Reviews of The Piano Lesson (1995) [VHS]

Movie Review: brings back "step and fetch it" and the ghosts?
Summary: 3 Stars

The only thing I liked about it was some of the musical numbers
which seemed authentic enough, but the picturing of the
blacks who came north as ignorant and superstitious,
while it may be true, isn't doing their present day
relatives a lot of good?
The acting, costumes and settings are pretty good.
Stepin Fetchit whose "characterization
as a lazy, slow-witted, jive-talkin' "coon" offended African Americans"
in the 30's seems to have been revived in this movie?
I don't think that revival can be a good thing.

Movie Review: The Piano Lesson
Summary: 5 Stars

Awesome video... August Wilson at his best. Worth buying and sharing with friends who come over. A movie about life and the realities one has to face on a daily basis.

Movie Review: The Piano Lesson
Summary: 5 Stars

This dvd was very entertaining and inspiring. The actors chosen to portray the characters are all first rate. I would recommend this dvd for viewing by all segments of the viewing audience.

Movie Review: The Piano Lesson
Summary: 5 Stars

Great movie. Brought back memories from back when it was first released. Great cast as well, wonderful group of actors.

Movie Review: Learn Your Lesson
Summary: 5 Stars

August Wilson's 'The Piano Player' with Charles Dutton and Alfre Woodard is such an engrossing play. This screen adaption brings you into there lives and makes you feel for every one in the movie. The writing 'superb'. The acting 'superb'. And the supporting cast is so top notch, you have to watch it more than once just to see all the scene stealers. This is a group that can send a complete message with just the raising of an eye, the shrugging of a shoulder, or the shaking of a head. You know what every gesture means. I now need 'Fences'.

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Summary of The Piano Lesson (1995) [VHS]

The only one of August Wilson's plays to be filmed (and for television, at that), this 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winner is an amazing piece of work. Adapted by Wilson and directed by Lloyd Richards, who staged it on Broadway, the play deals not just with racism and its effects but with the ongoing legacy and curse of slavery on modern blacks. Set in 1920s Pittsburgh, the story deals with the arrival of Boy Willie (Charles Dutton) from Mississippi, to claim a family heirloom from his sister Berniece (Alfre Woodard): the piano, carved by their ancestors with symbols of slavery. He wants to sell it to buy the land his grandfather worked as a slave; Berniece refuses to give it up because it represents a horrifying episode from the family's past. Add in ghosts, superb performances, and Wilson's poetically charged writing, and you have a startlingly solid piece of theater that works well as a film. --Marshall Fine

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