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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman [30th Anniversary Special Edition] [2 Discs]
Director: John Korty Cast: Cicely Tyson , Rod Perry , Odetta , Beatrice Winde , Richard Dysart
DVD
(Special Edition / Anniversary Edition)
$9.99
- Release Date: 01/11/2005
- UPC: 0074645895390
- Original Release: 1974
- Rating: NR
- Source: Classic Media
- Region Code: 1
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Stereo]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 6600
- Sales rank: 26,769
Play Feature
Scene Access
Side #2 -- Disc 2
The Making of the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Writing of the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Oral Tradition
Best Special and Best Actress Emmy Clips
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"Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery and ended at the inception of the Civil Rights Movement. Northern journalist Quentin Lerner (Michael Murphy) travels to the racia
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This superb historical drama tells the fictional story of 110-year-old former slave Jane Pittman. Or more accurately, the movie allows the fictional Miss Jane to tell her own story as both eyewitness and participant in 110 years of painfully real American history. Cicely Tyson gives a powerhouse performance as the plainspoken and spirited Jane, tracing her turbulent life journey from the skittish young slave girl freed at the end of the Civil War to the withered but indomitable old woman who finds herself at the center of a local civil rights struggle. Tyson’s portrayal is made all the more vivid by the thoroughly believable "aging" make-up created by Stan Winston and a young Ric (Star Wars) Baker. Tracy Keenan Wynn’s brilliant screenplay, adopted from Ernest J. Gaines’s novel, manages to convey the complexity of the black experience in this country with a subtlety and intelligence rarely achieved in film or television. The movie is also full of excellent supporting performances, including iconic folk singer Odetta as fellow slave Big Laura, Katherine Helmond as a Confederate widow, and Thalmus Rasulala as Jane’s adopted son, Ned. But the movie belongs to Tyson, whose tour-de-force performance earned her one of the production’s nine Emmy awards and universal acclaim as one of the greatest actresses of her generation. It’s a testament to both Tyson’s and the movie’s transcendent power that, in the years since its 1973 TV debut, Jane Pittman has stuck in the country’s collective conscious as a real, live, flesh-and-blood person, not a fictional creation. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is, simply put, a masterpiece. --Paul Leo