Camrose Public Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

If Beale Street could talk / Annapurna Pictures presents ; a Plan B Entertainment production, a Pastel production ; produced by Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner ; based on the book by James Baldwin ; written for the screen and directed by Barry Jenkins.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[Toronto, Ontario] : Entertianment One, 2019

Description:

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year-old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.

Target Audience Note:

CHV rating: PG (sexual content, coarse language, violence).

RCQ rating: G (déconseillé aux jeunes enfants).

Subjects:

African Americans -- Drama.

Pregnant women -- Drama.

False arrest -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Nineteen seventies -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Romance films.