The romance between two African Americans who come from a different class background.The romance between two African Americans who come from a different class background.The romance between two African Americans who come from a different class background.
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Lolis Edward Elie
- Lawyer
- (as Lolis Elie)
Thomas P. Brady
- Priest
- (as Fr. Thomas P. Brady)
D.J. Ammons
- Bus Station Ticket Agent
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaFilm director Horace Jenkins' son, Sacha Jenkins, was interviewed on The Takeaway to discuss the impact of the movie on his own life and career. The interview also included Rhea Combs, the curator of film and photography at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.
- ConnectionsReferences The Dating Game (1965)
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Aspirations
Richard Roman comes down to Louisiana to do some sightseeing. He and Tommye Myrick fall in love. Yet while he is certain about their future together, her mother, brother, and she have issues.
It is the revelation of those issues that forms the story of this movie, and the beauty of New Orleans and its environs makes a lovely backdrop. The conflict -- and you can't have a compelling story without a conflict -- is their class differences. If this movie has a point, it's that Black culture is not monolithic. In fact, Roman's character is what is slighted these days as an 'Oreo' -- Black on the outside, white inside. His is a world of possibilities, while Miss Myrick's is a broken world of circumscription that makes her distrustful.
If this movie has its weaknesses, it is the too-pretty world of gardens that their romance takes place against, and the manner in which the back stories are revealed when they become necessary for the plot. It's too neat to have much verisimilitude. Still, it satisfies all of the requirements of a romance, and the players are all more than competent. and the need for self-respect, for being able to take care of oneself is a key point of the subtext.
It is the revelation of those issues that forms the story of this movie, and the beauty of New Orleans and its environs makes a lovely backdrop. The conflict -- and you can't have a compelling story without a conflict -- is their class differences. If this movie has a point, it's that Black culture is not monolithic. In fact, Roman's character is what is slighted these days as an 'Oreo' -- Black on the outside, white inside. His is a world of possibilities, while Miss Myrick's is a broken world of circumscription that makes her distrustful.
If this movie has its weaknesses, it is the too-pretty world of gardens that their romance takes place against, and the manner in which the back stories are revealed when they become necessary for the plot. It's too neat to have much verisimilitude. Still, it satisfies all of the requirements of a romance, and the players are all more than competent. and the need for self-respect, for being able to take care of oneself is a key point of the subtext.
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- boblipton
- Oct 21, 2020
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- Gross US & Canada
- $27,317
- Gross worldwide
- $27,317
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