Movie review Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 500 words

Movie Review Example Walter Lee is sure that investing the money in a liquor store will provide the most long-term financial security for the family. He has some friends that want to invest in the business with him, but they are not willing to put up any of their own cash. Momma Younger, played by Phylicia Rashad is sure that getting out of the dismal housing situation they are in would help the entire family most. She has dreams of a nice neighborhood and a spacious house where there is enough room for all the family members to breathe. She has set her sights on a pleasant little house in the Clybourne Park neighborhood. The only problem is this neighborhood is all white. The Youngers would be the first African-American family to live there. Other major characters that have their own dreams and desires that are attached to the money in some way are Benethea and Ruth. Benethea is the sister of Walter Lee and Ruth is Walter Lee’s wife. Their young son’s name is Travis. The updated production is loosely based on the original play. Some of the updating is unfortunate because the feel of the story is altered tremendously. I feel that Phylicia Rashad and Sean Combs are woefully miscast in this production. The original story is about a family that was less polished and more real than the one portrayed in this production. Rashad and Combs are too smooth in their delivery to have credibility as the matriarch and oldest son of a family struggling to get out of the ghetto. Their presence gives the story an air of people pretending (not very convincingly) that they are salt of the earth. Stylistically, the updated feel of the story robs the original of the edginess in the original story. Some of the criticism I feel towards this updated version stems from the way the family reacts to the blatant racism they face from their white neighbors. The family doesn’t seem shocked or even truly angry. Walter Lee seems to be resigned