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The film opened at Cinema 1 in New York City on 17 June 1988. A World Apart has an overall approval rating of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes from 11 critics. [7] The film was placed on 40 critics' top ten lists, making it one of the most acclaimed films of 1988. [8]
A World Apart is a 1988 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Chris Menges, and starring Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé, Paul Freeman, Tim Roth and Jodhi May. Written by Shawn Slovo, it is based on the lives of Slovo's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo.
A World Apart: Directed by Chris Menges. With Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Hershey, Nadine Chalmers. 1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa.
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- 1988-06-17
A World Apart is a 1988 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Chris Menges, and starring Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé, Paul Freeman, Tim Roth and Jodhi May. Written by Shawn Slovo, it is based on the lives of Slovo's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo.
- Chris Menges
A World Apart ★★★½ 1988 (PG)Cinematographer Menges' first directoral effort is a blistering, insightful drama told from the point of view of a 13-year-old white girl living in South Africa, oblivious to apartheid until her crusading journalist mother is arrested under the 90-Day Detention Act, under which she might remain in prison ...
Jul 1, 1988 · July 1, 1988 12 AM PT. Times Film Critic. “All this hand-wringing, playing Joan of Arc, is an excuse for being a terrible mother,” a South African police interrogator says witheringly to...
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“A World Apart” is both political and personal – a view of a revolutionary as the middle-class mother of a normal 13-year-old girl. The girl’s name is Molly ( Jodhi May ), and the film opens with episodes from her typical childhood in an affluent white South African community.
