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Rosewood (film)
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| Directed by | John Singleton |
| Produced by | Joel Silver |
| Written by | Gregory Poirier |
| Starring | Jon Voight Esther Rolle Ving Rhames Don Cheadle Bruce McGill |
| Music by | John Williams |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | February 21, 1997 |
| Running time | 140 mins. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $31,000,000 |
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Rosewood is a 1997 film, starring Ving Rhames as a fictional character who travels to the town of Rosewood, Florida and becomes a witness to the 1923 massacre. Also starring was Don Cheadle as Sylvester, a non-fictional character who also became witness to the atrocities, and Jon Voight, as a white store owner who inhabits a village near Rosewood. The three characters become entangled in a desperate attempt to save whomever they can from the rage of the racist whites of Rosewood. The director was John Singleton.
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Due to gore, violence, a sexual episode, and a profusive usage of racial slurs and curses, the film was given an MPAA rating of R. The film did better with critics [1] than any John Singleton film since Boyz N the Hood. Despite that, the film was not a commercial success and was unable to earn the $30 million budget back.
The difficult subject matter (a white-led massacre of blacks) made it hard for the film to immediately gain widespread appeal.
There was, and remains, considerable debate as to how closely the film follows the actual historical account of the destruction of Rosewood and surrounding events, which is not surprising given the debates surrounding the details of the actual massacre[citation needed]. In one scene Ving Rhames fights off a white mob with pistols-this never happened. The siege of the Carrier house did happen. Esther Rolle plays a murder victim of a white mob. Ironically this was her third to her last acting role before she died.
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