HARRIET, The Story of American Icon Harriet Tubman Opens Today

[appalachiablue]

The True Story Behind the Harriet Tubman Movie. “Harriet,” a new film starring Cynthia Erivo, is the first feature film dedicated solely to the American icon, Smithsonian, Oct. 30, 2019.

Harriet Tubman’s first act as a free woman was poignantly simple. As she later told biographer Sarah Bradford, after crossing the Pennsylvania state boundary line in September 1849, “I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.”
The future Underground Railroad conductor’s next thoughts were of her family. “I was free,” she recalled, “but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there.”

Tubman dedicated the next decade of her life—a period chronicled in Harriet, a new biopic starring Cynthia Erivo as its eponymous heroine—to rescuing her family from bondage. Between 1850 and 1860, she returned to Maryland some 13 times, helping around 70 people—including four of her brothers, her parents and a niece—escape slavery and embark on new lives...https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/true-story-harriet-tubman-movie-180973413/

Variety, Toronto Film Review: 'Harriet'
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/reviews/toronto-film-review-harriet/ar-AAH7Lpa?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

[NurseJackie]

1. Looking forward to seeing this on BluRay or PPV or HBO.

Looks like it is VERY well done. I'm predicting (just based on the trailer) that we're looking at an Oscar for best picture and an Oscar for best actress.

We just don't "do" theaters any more:

-- No closed captioning.
-- No rewind for confusing dialog or great scenes.
-- No pause for bathroom breaks.
-- Expensive.
-- Talkative patrons.

I guess we're just old and cranky and hard of hearing with overactive bladders.

(The last movie I saw in the theater was Titanic.)

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread appalachiablue.