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www.eonline.com - : William Styron's beautiful, elegaic short story about a 99-year-old former slave who travels hundreds of miles on foot from the Deep South to be buried on the Tidewater Virginia plantation where he was born. Shadrach's story becomes a prism to reflect the prejudices, politesse and good humor of the Depression-era South. The POV is that of a sensitive kid (Terra) who listens intently and sees everything. The cast is uniformly solid, and MacDowell has never been better as plantation owner Keitel's trashy wife with a heart of gold. And in staying true to Styron's taut, compact story, director-daughter Susanna makes her movie linger in the senses like jasmine on a summer night. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Twenty years after it was first published in Esquire magazine, William Styron's short story ''Shadrach'' has been brought to the screen under the direction of his daughter, Susanna Styron. The nostalgic value of such trivia aside, ''Shadrach'' is a sadly flawed film, a noble effort that ultimately cracks and splinters under the weight of its own self-importance, yielding only a fraction of the emotion one might expect. more...
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