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Miss Evers Boys
Actor(s): Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Joe Morton, Obba Babatundé
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
Creator(s): Producer Laurence FishburneProducer Peter StelzerProducer Derek KavanaghProducer Kern KonwiserProducer Kip KonwiserWriter David FeldshuhWriter Walter Bernstein
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EAN: 9780783110905
Format(s): Closed-captionedColorNTSC
ISBN: 0783110901
Label: Hbo Home Video
Language(s): English Analog Original Language
List Price: $9.98
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Package Dimensions:
Height: 1.12"
Width: 4.19"
Length: 1.12"
Weight: 0.38 lbs.
Product Group: Video
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: 1998-04-14
Running Time: 118minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-02-22
UPC: 026359138935
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential video:
Laurence Fishburne helped shepherd this Emmy Award-winning exposé from American medical history books to the small screen. Anchored in the 1973 Senate inquiry into the infamous Tuskegee Study, the film uses a flashback structure to take us back 40 years as Nurse Eunice Evers (played with honest conviction by Alfre Woodard, who also earned an acting Emmy for her powerful performance) describes how a program designed to treat syphilis among blacks in the South was twisted into an inhuman study. Evers's conscience is torn between leaving her position on principle or remaining to give the dying men what comfort she can while they are systematically refused life-saving medicine at every turn. Fishburne costars as Caleb, a easygoing but ambitious young fieldhand who discovers the cold reality of the study while courting Miss Evers. Adapted by Walter Bernstein from a play by David Feldshuh, the film rises above the TV Movie of the Week mold with a complex moral structure that eschews (if you'll pardon the expression) black and white polarities for shades of gray as the doctors' initial compromises become a lifetime of lies. Ultimately that tone becomes the most disturbing facet of the drama: doctors and nurses so enmeshed in what is tantamount to a conspiracy they can find no way out, and a government that searches for scapegoats for its own cold-blooded research. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews Average rating - 4.5
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-15
Content: I had to buy this movie to watch it for school. I was shocked by the real-life story that this movie depicts. It's a great movie to watch, especially for those in healthcare to see how research trials with human subjects were conducted.
Summary: Shocking
Rating - 4 Date: 2008-09-24
Content: it's a great movie that allows you to see how the tuskegee study actually came about and how it took many years later for something to be done. its sad but informative. i loved it.
Summary: informative
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-05-09
Content: I was impressed and pleased with the speed of delivery and the quality of the product.
Summary: great!
Rating - 4 Date: 2008-04-09
Content: I enjoyed it tremendously. (You'll have to watch out that it doesn't depress you). However, I found it to be noteworthy as it was historical and shed a bit of light on a situation that maybe some did not know ever existed. I would have liked it if the story would have dealt more with the government's ivolvement with the Tuskegee Project in preventing medicine to be given to the black men that were unknowingly used for this experiment. This story focused more on Miss Ever's commitment to the men, instead of the government's decision that these human beings were expendable. Excellent acting by Alfred Woodard & Laurence Fisburne.
Summary: Miss Evers Boys
Rating - 4 Date: 2008-03-30
Content: I had to be involved in a debate for school about the Tuskegee Incident. This video seems to follow history fairly accurately, unlike some of Hollywood's other 'based on real life' stories.
Summary: Follows Historical Details
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