The Women of Brewster Place (1989) is a movie I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a lady who becomes pregnant young and decides to move to the city from the country to raise her son. She goes through the trials and tribulations of being a black single mother with little to no help to make it. As she gets older she helps other people like her who are suffering the struggles of living in the streets in the same neighborhood she raised her son in...
This movie is directed by Donna Deitch (Heroes) and stars Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple), Robin Givens (Boomerang), Cicely Tyson (The Help), Paul Winfield (The Terminator), Lynn Whitfield (Eve's Bayou) and Phyllis Yvonne Stickney (New Jack City).
This is a very entertaining story that isn't as dramatic and impactful as similar films like The Color Purple. The acting and script are very good and the circumstances while predictable at times are well though-out and delivered. The storyline starts off with a brutal father/daughter scene. The conversations at the hair stylists were hilarious. The son in this is annoying and the baby sequence is as sad as it gets. The depiction of the ghetto and challenges within are very well delivered.
Overall this is a very well done film that isn't perfect but is definitely worth a viewing. I would score this a 8/10 and strongly recommend seeing it once.
This movie is directed by Donna Deitch (Heroes) and stars Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple), Robin Givens (Boomerang), Cicely Tyson (The Help), Paul Winfield (The Terminator), Lynn Whitfield (Eve's Bayou) and Phyllis Yvonne Stickney (New Jack City).
This is a very entertaining story that isn't as dramatic and impactful as similar films like The Color Purple. The acting and script are very good and the circumstances while predictable at times are well though-out and delivered. The storyline starts off with a brutal father/daughter scene. The conversations at the hair stylists were hilarious. The son in this is annoying and the baby sequence is as sad as it gets. The depiction of the ghetto and challenges within are very well delivered.
Overall this is a very well done film that isn't perfect but is definitely worth a viewing. I would score this a 8/10 and strongly recommend seeing it once.