Good Fences

Good Fences A black family’s move into a privileged world of white 1970s suburbia triggers provocative results in this eye-opening story about believing in yourself. Starring Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Spader., A black family’s move into a privileged world of white 1970s suburbia triggers provocative results in this eye-opening story about believing in yourself. Starring Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Spader., In 1970s Connecticut, a successful black lawyer (Danny Glover) moves his family into an all-white neighborhood. Whoopi Goldberg. Ruth: Mo’Nique. Tina: Marlyne Afflack. Jean: Norman Dell’Agnese. Young Tom: Matthew Brown. Tommy-Two (age 17): Zachary Simmons Glover. Stormy (age 17): Ryan Michelle Bathe. Binky: Joy Tanner. Becka: Kate Trotter. Tommy-Two: Vincent McCurdy Clark. Stormy: Ashley Archer. Luisa: Lina Felice. Hector: Yacoob Jaria. Gina: Jenna Perry. Young Mabel: Vanessa Madden., Multi award winning actress Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover are reunited for the first time since The Color Purple in this comedy drama, executively produced by Spike Lee. The Spades, a black family with a burning desire to erase the line between themselves and the ‘white American Dream’ move into the posh, white middle class, 1970’s suburban town of Greenwich. At first seeming like paradise, attorney Tom Spader believes they have overcome stereotypes, and he can now live out his ambition to succeed in a white mans world. But this is far from the reality surrounding them. His wife, Mable struggles to fit into this new ‘white’ society, and quickly they both realise they are strangers in this seemingly perfect town they had once hoped to call home. Tom and Mable must discover who they really are and decide whose dream they were keen to live when they moved to their new home., A black family’s move into a privileged world of white 1970s suburbia triggers provocative results in this eye-opening story about believing in yourself., A black family gets a first-hand look at the trials and tribulations of upward mobility and suburban segregation in this pointed comedy. In 1973, Tom (Danny Glover) is an African-American attorney who is determined to raise himself up by his own bootstraps from his position near the bottom of the totem pole at a law firm. Tom takes on a case no one else is willing to touch — defending a confessed arsonist whose crime claimed the lives of two teenagers — and when he manages to score a surprising legal victory for his client, Tom is given a promotion and he moves his family to a new home in the suburbs. However, Tom and his wife Mabel (Whoopi Goldberg) discover they’re only the second black household to move into the neighborhood (the first was a woman who struck it rich in the lottery), and housewife Mabel soon learns her neighbors aren’t especially open to the notion of ethnic diversity in their community. Good Fences was directed by former cinematographer Ernest Dickerson and produced in part by his frequent collaborator Spike Lee; the film was screened in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival., With his career taking off, a black attorney, his wife and their two children move to an uppity, all-white neighborhood in Greenwich., A successful African-American attorney moves his family into a posh, white neighbourhood, triggering tragi-comic problems for all concerned.