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Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed and co-produced by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, based on his 1985 play. It stars Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, and Saniyya Sidney.
Dec 23, 2016 · This repeated scenario forms the basis of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Fences.” 29 years after its Broadway premiere, “Fences” arrives in theaters courtesy of a screenplay by the late playwright himself.
Sep 7, 2023 · The ending of Fences reveals that Troy, the stern father, dies of a heart attack and Cory, bitter towards his father, refuses to attend the funeral. The titular fence in Fences represents entrapment for Cory, while for Rose it signifies a desire to keep her family together. Troy's contradictory beliefs shape the family's downfall.
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Jan 5, 2017 · Check Amazon. Fences is unapologetically theatrical, in everything from its truly towering performances to its scant settings, elongated structure, and heavy use of metaphors and drama.
Nov 22, 2016 · Film Review: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in ‘Fences’. Denzel Washington directs and stars in a towering screen version of August Wilson's play about a flawed inner-city patriarch. It's ...
Dec 15, 2016 · Fences gives us a working-class black family in the 1950s, with particular focus on a father whose own rough go at life informs but doesn't fully excuse his behavior in his own household. For it...
From its reunited Broadway stars to its screenplay, the solidly crafted Fences finds its Pulitzer-winning source material fundamentally unchanged -- and still just as powerful. Read Critics ...
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