- History, Drama
- 128 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes99%Metacritic79IMDb7.5
One dream can change the world.
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
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- Marthaon TMDB · Jul 20221/10
I put off watching this movie because I am from Selma Alabama and I grew up there. Being from a town that was the heart of the Civil Rights Movement is hard growing up as a poor white girl because some of the black people in that town hold the racism against every white person and do to this day. I've never been one to be prejudice, but some of the people in that town really are and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Selma was the turning point for all of Civil Rights. I left Selma and I can't say that was a bad thing. I had researched the March as a teen because I wasn't old enough to be there or wasnt even born yet, and I know for a fact they left out a lot of key elements in that movie that they didn't want you to see so I cannot give this a decent rating higher than a 1 because there's quite a few things omitted for the public not to see. The actors were very well casted and the backdrop made me proud to see my hometown shown so beautifully. Still I can't give this anything but one star due to the omitting of certain aspects of the story which are HISTORY and should not have been left out.
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Cast
- David OyelowoDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Carmen EjogoCoretta Scott King
- Tom WilkinsonPresident Lyndon B. Johnson
- Giovanni RibisiLee White
- Tim RothGov. George Wallace
- André HollandAndrew Young
- Colman DomingoRalph Abernathy
- CommonJames Bevel
- Stephan JamesJohn Lewis
- Omar J. DorseyJames Orange
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- Ava DuVernayDirector
- Paul WebbWriter
- Ava DuVernayWriter
- Bradford YoungDirector of Photography
- Jason MoranOriginal Music Composer
- Spencer AverickEditor
- Dede GardnerProducer
- Oprah WinfreyProducer
- Jeremy KleinerProducer
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