Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
by Charles Haid
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Actor: Carmen Ejogo, Diahann Carroll, Mare Winningham, Mario Van Peebles, Sam NeillDirector: Charles Haid
Brand: NEILL,SAM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 171 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
DVD Review: A Sally Hemmings Fan
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie gave me another look at what was surely a horror for so many black slave women of that time. This woman commanded her lifestyle as best it could be. I recommend it to everyone and afterall; it is history.DVD Review: Salvery is Slavery
Summary: 2 Stars
What difference does it makes if it was Thomas Jefferson or other slave owners who held high positions in this country, they all did the same,had children by these women who were held capture. Does this make it right to write a book as though it was some kind of regular love story. This Sally Hemmings more than likely thought that she was far superior than any other slaves on that plantation. Has any one wrote about how she may had felt about her own situation at that time, Thomas Jefferson was not the only President nor slave owner who have done this, PLEASE READERS, PLEASE, GET REAL. There so are many children conceived between slave women and their masters, there is no way to count them all, but genes do show up within families hundreds of years later. Gee,I wonder were did I get my very long, waist length hair, and my brother and my granddaughter, where did they get those hazel eyes??????? DVD Review: Grossly inaccurate and misleading.
Summary: 1 Stars
I was very interested to find this DVD, as this is a fascinating episode in American history.
Sadly, it is just a made-up romantic tale that completely distorts and ignores the known facts and - outrageously - invents things that we know did not happen just because the story would have been better if they did.
One simple example exposes the whole pile of rubbish: throughout the whole thing Sally Hemings is at war Martha, TJ's daughter. The grand denouement comes as the climax to the film when, right at the end, with TJ dead and buried, the cruel and vicious Martha threatens to sell Sally. Sally then produces a letter from TJ that gave her her freedom way back in Paris all these years ago. She has not stayed because she was a slave, she has stayed for love. This is rubbish. This never happened. It is a straightforward lie. Jefferson, to his eternal disgrace and shame, did not ever free Sally. It was, in fact, Martha who behaved with generosity, dignity and compassion towards Sally after TJs death. The daughter clears up the father's mess. Again.
This is sloppy, lazy, self-indulgent film-making and bad, bad history. As is the scene where Sally is abducted, stripped and whipped. There is absolutely no record of this ever having happened and it is not a part of the full and detailed Hemings' oral history. They just made it up to shock the viewers. There were lots of bad people around then, doing lots of ugly things. We don't have to make stuff up. To do so is an insult to the real people who suffered real pain. If they want to make a soft porn romance about a mixed race master/slave relationship that's their choice. But don't call it history.
DVD Review: Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
From the beginning to the end of this movie, Carmen Ejogo channeled the multiple complexities of Sally Hemmings beautifully! The mix of emotions so eloquently portrayed by Sam Neil very poignantly captured the essence of forbidden love becoming true love. As a decendant of slaves and native americans, I was as saddened as I was grateful at this excellent depiction of how slaves suffered. However painful the story overall, the fire and deep love shared between Sally and President Jefferson as depicted, was so intoxicating, you only hope to know such a great love in your own lifetime. I hope to see more of Carmen Ejogo. She dazzles.DVD Review: Fascinating Story!
Summary: 5 Stars
Despite the lingering question of how much of this tale is history and how much is fiction, it is a most fascinating, entertaining, and challenging story of forbidden love. This movie is three hours long, but it may leave you wishing for more! Five stars, not for its historicity, for which I am not qualified to evaluate, but for its thought-provoking value and its entertainment. I rented it but am now ordering my own copy.
Description of Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 3-JAN-2006
Media Type: DVD
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