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The film is about the relationship between a Christian African American who has a positive view of life and a nihilistic White man with a very negative view. The film aired on HBO on February 12, 2011, and received generally favorable reviews.
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Jul 10, 2024 · The play focuses on two characters known only as Black and White, who engage in an intense dialogue with their juxtaposed worldviews and seemingly differing religious beliefs after Black appears to have saved White from jumping in front of a train.
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Nothing is ever black or white. A deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, ‘The Sunset Limited.’.
Feb 12, 2011 · Nothing is ever black or white. Overview A deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.'
May 7, 2012 · The tagline on The Sunset Limited DVD reads, “Nothing is ever black or white.” I imagine it’s the product of an ad exec’s imagination rather than McCarthy’s for the predominant shades in all his work are back and white. He sees the world, rightly, as a world of sharp contrasts.
Black (Gary Beadle), an African-American ex-convict, has just prevented White (Jasper Britton), a college professor, from jumping in front of the New York train known as The Sunset Limited. He’s brought the professor home to his modest apartment and attempts to talk him out of his despair.
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This film offers an intense dialogue between Mr.Black and Mr.White or two opposing sides of an argument. Tommy Lee Jones plays a cultured intellectual secularist and Samuel L. Jackson plays a violent uneducated ex-con who found salvation in God and Bible.
