Nightjohn
by Charles Burnett
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Actor: Beau Bridges, Lorraine ToussaintDirector: Charles Burnett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Nightjohn
DVD Review: Excellent Film for Middle School or HIgh School
Summary: 5 Stars
I teach pre-service teacher candidates who will be middle school and high school English teachers. I use this film in my course on Adolescent Literature. I encourage them to use this film in their middle and high school classes. This book and film can be used to help pre-teens and teens understand and discuss the cruelty of slavery. The film ends on a hopeful note and underscores the power of literacy. It is short enough to be shown in two sections and it is based on a book by an excellent young adult author, Gary Paulsen.DVD Review: NightJohn****
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of the movies I can/t seem to keep around the house... Someones always borrowing or holding on to the dvd for weeks at a time to long... The casting was great.., I was entertained by the manner of associations in those days, Where the plantation owners wife & the doctor felt more commonality to read an novel whereas the slave quarters the generations had to co-exist... DVD Review: Another Look at the Cruelty Slavery
Summary: 4 Stars
NightJohn was focused more on slaves not being allowed to learn to read/write and is recommended because it's another area to look at how cruelty was practiced during slavery. Not only the inhumane physical torture to break the body and will that is usually portrayed in "slavery in America" movies, but this movie focused on the attempt to keep the slave mentally crippled/enslaved "total helplessness". It was a crime subject to extremely harsh punishment or even death, if caught learning to read or write. It shows the courage and strong will of one particular slave in his determination to pass on what he had learned to other slaves, against all odds and regardless of consequences. Fine acting from the entire cast. Especially, Carl Lumbly, Beau Bridges, and the little girl, Allison Jones. DVD Review: Too Bad I Read The Book First
Summary: 3 Stars
If I had seen it before reading the book I might have been able to appreciate it for the movie that it is. However, it takes such liberties with the story it is based on that my students said if it weren't for the title it would be unrecognizable as the same story. Both they and I were very disappointed. The book is fabulous, why couldn't they just have let it be? DVD Review: A different story
Summary: 4 Stars
Rather different from the book, missing several key points that are utterly replaced by others... But a good movie with a good point and still useful for Compare/Contrast assignments for my students.
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Studio: Platinum Disc Llc Release Date: 02/28/2006 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg13Drama DVDs
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