Native Son 1986 123movies

Watch: Native Son 1986 123movies, Full Movie Online – Bigger Thomas, an African American who lives in an impoverished neighborhood, is employed by a prosperous white family who live in the suburbs of a major city. The money Bigger makes at his new job will be used to supplement his mother’s income. As a chauffeur, he is directed by the father of the family to take Mary, the daughter, to the university. Instead, Mary decides to pick up her Socialist boyfriend, Jan, and to spend the time drinking and partying. Jan and Mary portray a young liberal couple who venture into a black neighborhood with Bigger for the sole purpose of being entertained at Ernie’s, a black nightclub. On the way home, Mary becomes inebriated and Bigger must get her to her bedroom without being detected. Mary’s mother, who is blind, enters the room and Bigger panics at the thought of being caught with a white woman. He accidentally kills Mary by placing a pillow over her head to keep her quiet. Still frightened, Bigger disposes of the body in the furnace, possibly because he feels he would not get a fair trial for the accidental death of a white woman. Meanwhile, Jan is wanted by the police for Mary’s murder and Bigger plays a role in the accusations against him..
Plot: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
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	6.0/10 Votes: 584
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	N/A Votes: 8 Popularity: 2.435 | TMDB

Reviews:

Native Son Deserves Better
I read Native Son as a teen and again about four years ago as an adult. I had really mixed feelings about Bigger Thomas with an inclination towards hating him. The way the movie depicts him my feelings about him aren’t very mixed–I don’t like Bigger.

Bigger is an angry reckless young man. The movie can’t get into his head like the book can but truthfully, there was no real justification for his immense anger and reckless behavior.

As a production this movie didn’t quite fit the bill. The sound quality was bad which made the acting itself seem worse than what it really was. The movie speed wasn’t good either. Everything was accelerated with no good transitions from scene to scene. I knew what was going on and why because I read the book, but without that knowledge I may have been lost watching the movie.

I don’t want to dump on the movie too much because I can tell it was a low budget production and they probably did the best they could. It’s noteworthy that they landed Matt Dillon and Oprah Winfrey. Even Shavar Ross (prominently known as Dudley from Diff’rent Strokes) was something of a known name at that time.

I think that Native Son deserves a better production than it got. I see that there was a 2019 release of Native Son. Hopefully it is better.

lots of talent, but a dramatic misfire
Few movies ever measure up to the books they’re based on, and sometimes the only safe way to judge a literary adaptation is on its own terms, as if the source material never existed. Which makes the screen version of Richard Wright’s celebrated novel — faithfully set in 1940 Chicago — a curiously dated social artifact. It demands a little mental arithmetic to update the story, about an angry young ghetto black who, in a moment of fear and desperation, accidentally suffocates the daughter of the wealthy, white family for whom he works as a servant. The issues of black and white are rightfully shown to be shaded with gray, but the production may be too slick for its own good. The film might have worked better had it been more harsh and controversial, more willing to disturb the complacency of self-satisfied viewers who, like Elizabeth McGovern’s character, seek to prove their open-minded color blindness by their condescending ignorance of the wide gulf separating the two races. A talented, high profile cast is enough reason to recommend the film.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 2000000
Revenue 1301121
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Jerrold Freedman
Writer Richard Wesley, Richard Wright
Actors Victor Love, Matt Dillon, Elizabeth McGovern
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio N/A
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm