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Shadrach (1998)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 5
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Susanna Styron made her feature directorial debut with this family drama, an adaptation of a 1978 short story by her father, novelist William Styron (Sophie's Choice). Paul Whitehurst (voice of Martin Sheen) recalls Depression-era events in Tidewater, Virginia, when he was ten years old. In the summer of 1935, lonely young Paul (Scott Terra), with his strict father (Darrell Larson) and fatally ill mother (Deborah Hedwall), is raised in a boring, middle-class way of life, so mundane it leads him

PG-13, 1 hr. 28 min.

Drama

Susanna Styron, Bridget Terry

Feb 23, 1999

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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A vignette, really, a couple of days in a boy%u06E5s life recollected in tranquillity.

September 28, 2009 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Comment
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A heart-affecting drama about a youngster who learns that we must give each death that enters our life the attention it deserves.

March 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
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Paul, an only child, loves visiting the Dabney family. The Dabneys have seven children, and they're a much poorer family. During Paul's tenth summer, set in the 1930s, a family member he never even met passes away, and he goes to stay with the Dabneys while his parents go off to the funeral. That's when he meets

September 5, 2009
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This is a very good movie. One complaint: Harvey Keitel's character cusses a LOT, and he uses the n-word a lot. Since I saw this on network TV, both were edited -- but the n-word was certainly edited (pronounced "nigreh") for the original film, not just for TV, and frankly I suspect much of his cussing was as well.

July 8, 2010
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