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DramaYear2019Duration1h 44mIMDb5.7

Native Son

Drama

A young African-American living in Chicago enters into a seductive new world of money and power after he is hired as a chauffeur for an affluent businessman.

Trailer

Cast

Rashid Johnson

Director

Ashton Sanders

Bigger Thomas

Margaret Qualley

Mary Dalton

Nick Robinson

Jan

KiKi Layne

Bessie

Bill Camp

Mr. Dalton

Sanaa Lathan

Trudy Thomas

Elizabeth Marvel

Mrs. Dalton

David Alan Grier

Marty

Lamar Johnson

Jackson

Jerod Haynes

Gus

Aaron Moten

Tony

Stephen McKinley Henderson

Mr. Green

Barbara Sukowa

Peggy

Judae'a

Vera

JL

Jaedyn Lane

Jasmine

Ashleigh Morghan

Jasmine

AB

Alan B. Jones

Detective Calhoun

MS

Malkia Stampley

Detective Rogers

Suzan-Lori Parks

Writer

Richard Wright

Writer

Comments

10 Comments

kyline alcantaraMay 29, 2023

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joinsttaMar 29, 2023

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🍫Diivaa🍫🍫Mar 29, 2023

Slow moving, overly melodramatic story not helped by background Beethoven's fifth.

penny.giftyOct 18, 2022

Quite performance from the actors, but the history seems to have a lack, feels like since the beginning they will bring a social question to us, but suddenly, the movie starts to rush, with a brief development about the background of the main character and how the institutional racism affects him. I was unable to relate the title of the movie from what he bring to us aswell.

CeranoraOct 18, 2022

Black guy hooks up with white girl. Yawn. Jungle Fever tropes abound.

حسام الرسامOct 18, 2022

It's stays very true to the book in many ways and I've always thought the book would make a great movie. I understood why they tried to make it contemporary because there is no question that racism is not gone. However certain aspect of the story don't really work very well in modern society. There were also odd choices like making the Bigger's family wealthier and him having a job at the beginning that make his choices less clear throughout.

jamal_alphaOct 18, 2022

This isnt really a great movie but it has a knd of unique tone and feel to it, a tone that is very hard to define and beucause of that its intriguing. The lead acting is fenomenal!

SEYISHAYOct 18, 2022

You know a movie does a good job when it disturbs you days afterwards. The tension builds slowly until breaking point and then sadly it just kinds of peters off in a totally different direction however Ashton's performance from beginning to end was excellent. The whole cast bought depth to their characters, no matter small or big their onscreen time was. The scenery was really well thought out and it draws you in. The settings felt intimate and it exemplified the rawness of each character.

KING CARLOS OFFICIALOct 18, 2022

This is like modern-day racial profiling against our black society... In the movie, the white girl Mary forced Big to try to have sex and it lead to a crime when she had a pillow covered over her face... Bigger was trying to get her to go to sleep later that night & this all lead to Mary coming on to him... People sometimes dont get to see the real truth of what really happens, and thats why he have to turn hiself in. He is now lost in the place of mind whether he should live for it or keep it a secret. It is really tough for us being African-American males and this is why we shouldnt date nobody from out our race. Things like this happen all of the time and we get blamed for the consequences. This whole movie was sad.... I love white people, but this was very depressing.

Sid'Ahmed AbdelahiOct 18, 2022

A few memorable lines buried in a straight to video storyline and lots of 1st year film class acting. The main character's supposed 'edgy contradictions' is interesting until one discovers it's being asked to carry a corporate motel bowl of oatmeal to the finish line.

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