This is an excellent mystery with superb performances all-round.
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02/24/02
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:27
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: Tense, funny, and thought-provoking all at once, and lifted by strong performances from Sydney Poitier and Rod Steiger, director Norman Jewison's look at murder and racism in small-town America continues to resonate today.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Norman Jewison helms this Best Picture winner about a black Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) who becomes involved in a murder case in a small, bigoted southern town, much to the chagrin of... [More]
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant
Director: Norman Jewison
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Reviews for In the Heat of the Night
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08/29/02
The cleverness of Silliphant's script is in combining the investigation of a murder with a message film.
10/31/07
A decent piece of do-good cinema.
12/13/06
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04/30/08
...a thoughtful moral drama, an absorbing character study, an enjoyable comedy, and a mystery thriller all rolled into one.
01/01/00
Norman Jewison's drama is a message film in the guise of a small-town murder mystery, propagating interracial friendship between blacks and whites.
07/25/06
Probably Norman Jewison's best picture.
10/31/07
No review available.
06/14/03
far -- far -- more interested in racial politics than criminal capers, and it's Tibbs' interactions with the local yokels that make the film so memorable
02/28/08
How fine a film this is.
01/01/00
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08/30/02
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06/04/04
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01/10/03
A film that has the look and sound of actuality and the pounding pulse of truth.
05/20/03
Age hasn't done much for Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night.
01/10/03
Rod Steiger delivers an engaging performance as a bigoted police chief who comes to trust a strong black homicide detective.
11/21/06
Liberal do-gooder film.
05/25/06
Poitier and Steiger have such strong chemistry together and they act so well in their respective roles that their relationship comes alive and grabs you on a gut level
02/27/01
...captured that small town feel quite well...
08/01/03
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