Claudine (1974)
by John Berry
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Actor: David Kruger, Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Tamu BlackwellDirector: John Berry
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-14
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Claudine (1974)
DVD Review: welfare man
Summary: 5 Stars
funny flick actually. its a great way to see how society views women with many kids on welfare. DVD Review: CLAUDINE! CLAUDINE! CLAUDINE!
Summary: 5 Stars
Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones really made this movie great! The soundtrack by Gladys Knight and the Pips is so enjoyable. Claudine is one of my favorite black old school classic movies. Plus, this movie is part of my Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs collection. He was HOTT back in the day! He also looks great today! DVD Review: classic
Summary: 4 Stars
this is one that should be everyone's dvd collection too. i always enjoy watching this movie.DVD Review: Makes me cry everytime...
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought a copy of the DVD from Amazon a couple of months ago...and I cannot tell you how many times I have watched it since. I am a child of the 70's and all themes and settings in the movie are a part of my childhood. I remember playing outside on the sidewalk in Harlem and just being kids. This movie makes me cry everytime it ends! When I have nothing to watch on TV I pop it in the DVD player and pour a glass of wine and just think back. This movie shows the strength and fortitude of two people trying to work themselves up in life in spite of the financial hardships that they face. I don't think Rupert ran out on his children. I firmly believe that those relationships just did not work out for him. Same as Claudine. Granted there were nine children between them but all in all they were two people who happened to find themselves later on in life after they had already acquired so much baggage. The hookers and rodent infested apartments were what many families who lived in the tenements back in those days had to contend with. Overall Rupert was a hard working honest man. Claudine just wanted a good life for her children and that showed in how she went to work while she was collecting welfare. The soundtrack is amazing. I just downloaded it and I listen to it over and over again. 'Be Invisible' is my favorite tune, the music and lyrics are so true to life. Soundtrack and movie are fabulous. This story does have a happy ending and that's what makes it all come together in the end.DVD Review: A 70s classic!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one movie I saw by accident and now I own the DVD. I was born the year it came out, and didn't discover it until early this decade. It is a shame many TV networks don't air this movie like they should, that's one of my reason for discovering it late. Anyway, Dianne Carroll played this part to the bone, I don't think any other black actress of the day could play the part she did. Excellent storyline and excellent plot! I could relate to this very well, because I have 5 other siblings and my mother was a single mother. If you want reality in your movies, get Claudine now, you won't be disappointed.
Description of Claudine (1974)
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 01/08/2008 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: PgIt's easy to get hooked by Claudine, a lean, funny, Nixon-era movie about a romance nearly undone by a patronizing welfare system. Diahann Carroll stars as Claudine, single mother of six children in Harlem and a maid working for under-the-table wages. Forever worried that her white caseworker will discover her meager, outside income (thus eliminating meager government benefits), Claudine further complicates her domestic situation by falling in love with Roop (James Earl Jones). An affable Romeo and absent but financially supportive father of several kids, Roop by his presence jeopardizes Claudine's official status as a mom without means. The couple's decision to go forward results in welfare backlash, personal humiliation, family strain, and corrosive behavior. A sharp script layers the personal story within a socially conscious treatment, while Jones and Carroll's special chemistry turns the characters into fully rounded people. John Berry (From This Day Forward), an interesting if forgotten director, brings a clipped vitality to this urban affair. --Tom Keogh
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