Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Oct 31, 2002 Wide
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Directed by Craig Lahiff, Black and White is a story about bigotry, social injustice, and a real-life murder trial that made Australian headlines in the late '50s. On a December afternoon in 1958, the body of a nine-year-old white girl is discovered in a cave off the coast of Southern Australia. Detective Paul Turner (Roy Billing) quickly arrests a half-aboriginal fair-worker named Max Stuart (David Ngoombujarra), who signs a confession. However, being that Max is illiterate, the legitimacy of
Oct 31, 2002 Wide
Oct 18, 2005
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finds just the right balance between scenes inside and outside the courtroom, and deftly juggles an unusually large number of characters without ever seeming cluttered.
Some fine performances, but the story lacks focus and spends too much time in the gray area.
Unlike the title, life is far from black and white, and this satisfying journey offers us a menu of many of its shades of grey.
This courtroom drama was fairly decent movie based on true events. Although not original with many more out there just like this one, it was still entertaining, emotional, and worth seeing because it was just so messed up. A black Aboriginal man in Australia gets accused of raping and killing a 9 year old girl. He is
November 10, 2010The story of Black And White somehow goes too fast. It's like a checklist of events listed one after the other. And for my taste it's way too British. Plus I do not like the cinematography, the make-up and the characters. But the story is alright.
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