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- As a film, Fences is itself a bit static, a serious movie most interested in showcasing its stars’ outstanding performances. But its story also feels fresh, as if it were written to slot itself into the concerns of 2016: Questions of race and privilege, agency, and responsibility are all here.
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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 23, 2016 · Fences. 138 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2016. Odie Henderson. December 23, 2016. 7 min read. Every payday, garbage collector Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) holds court in the backyard of the Pittsburgh home he shares with his wife, Rose (Viola Davis) and their son, Cory (Jovan Adepo). By Troy’s side are his two best friends, Bono (Stephen ...
Dec 14, 2016 · As a film, Fences is itself a bit static, a serious movie most interested in showcasing its stars’ outstanding performances. But its story also feels fresh, as if it were written to slot...
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 .
Sep 2, 2023 · ‘Fences’ is partially based on a true story. It is an adaptation of August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. The play is sixth of the ten in the playwright’s ‘Pittsburgh Cycle’, a collection of plays that focuses on the lives of African-Americans in the 20th century.
Fences: Directed by Denzel Washington. With Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo. A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
In this adaptation of August Wilson's masterful play FENCES, Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) is a hardworking garbage collector trying to find his place in a 1950s world that still judges him by the color of his skin and places high expectations on him as a man and a father.
