Rosewood (1997)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Feb 21, 1997
Running Time: 142 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Set in 1923, the true story of the events which occurred in Rosewood, Florida after a white woman unjustly accused a black man of rape. Fueled by anger and racism, an angry white mob burned down the town and massacred its inhabitants. One man, the only white storekeeper in Rosewood, risked his own life by teaming with a black drifter to help women and children escape to safety.
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April 11, 2001
Jon Voight and Ving Rhames give strong performances in this uneven but unmistakably earnest film set in Florida, in 1923. Voight plays John Wright, a white shopkeeper in the predominantly black town of Rosewood. Rhames takes the role of Mann, a World War I veteran who wants to settle in a town where blacks are prospering.

Trouble starts when Fannie Taylor (Catherine Kellner), a housewife in the neighboring white town of Sumner, claims that she was beaten and raped by a black stranger. Fannie's… Continued

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John Wright
Sylvester
Duke Purdy
James Taylor
Aunt Sarah
Scrappie
Sheriff Walker
Fanny Taylor
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