Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.
I love that the cover of the DVD proudly says "from the director of Silence of the Lambs", because these two movies have so much in common. I mean, yes, this one does have some creepy zombie ghost girl and there is a mass murder scene... but I suspect as a whole the overlapping audience is not all that large.
The movie is okay. Danny Glover is alright, and Oprah seems to be over-acting much of the time. What I actually had the biggest problem with -- and maybe this will sound stupid -- was the display of teeth. Rows of pearly, beautiful teeth. And I greatly doubt anyone of that time period had such good dental care, let alone the slave population.
I love that the cover of the DVD proudly says "from the director of Silence of the Lambs", because these two movies have so much in common. I mean, yes, this one does have some creepy zombie ghost girl and there is a mass murder scene... but I suspect as a whole the overlapping audience is not all that large.
The movie is okay. Danny Glover is alright, and Oprah seems to be over-acting much of the time. What I actually had the biggest problem with -- and maybe this will sound stupid -- was the display of teeth. Rows of pearly, beautiful teeth. And I greatly doubt anyone of that time period had such good dental care, let alone the slave population.