Good Fences

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Good Fences
	DVD cover based on the painting American Gothic
Genre	Comedy-drama
Based on	Good Fences; by Erika Ellis
Written by	Trey Ellis
Directed by	Ernest R. Dickerson
Starring	Danny Glover; Whoopi Goldberg;
Music by	George Duke
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Spike Lee; Sam Kitt;
Producers	Danny Glover; Whoopi Goldberg;
Cinematography	Jonathan Freeman
Editor	Stephen Lovejoy
Running time	119 minutes
Production company	40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Original release
Network	Showtime
Release	February 2, 2003

Good Fences is a 2003 American comedy-drama television film directed by Ernest Dickerson and written by Trey Ellis, based on the 1997 novel of the same name by his wife Erika Ellis. The film is about the stresses of prejudice on an upwardly mobile black family in 1970s Greenwich, Connecticut. Danny Glover plays the overworked, stressed husband and Whoopi Goldberg plays his steadfast wife.

Good Fences was produced by Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. It premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on Showtime on February 2, 2003. Goldberg won an Image Award for her role.^[1]

Cast

The New York Times reviewed the film positively,^[2] as did Dove.^[3]

↑ Gondo, Nancy (June 13, 2003). "Good Fences". Variety. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
↑ Gates, Anita (January 31, 2003). "TELEVISION REVIEW; Turning Everything White but the Skin". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
↑ "Good Fences". Dove Family Friendly Movie Reviews. Retrieved February 15, 2022.

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