The Learning Tree PG
A bittersweet and idyllic story about a year in the life of a 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, immorality and honor.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 1, 2011
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: Warner Archives
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans & Dana Elcar | |
| Performer: | Joel Fluellen, Malcolm Atterbury & Mira Waters | |
| Directed by | Gordon Parks | |
| Edited by | George R. Rohrs | |
| Produced by | Gordon Parks | |
| Director of Photography: | Burnett Guffey |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/5 --
The restraint, the composure, the sufficiency of the sentimental gesture constitute a small gift for memory and a real victory in the first stages of this filmmaker's career.
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New York Times
It's conventional and rather toothless.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/5 --
Low key, powerful story
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 3/4 --
Visually beautiful and moving.
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TV Guide
Falls into the path of giving a message more than it does letting things emerge organically.
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Movie Views
The Learning Tree is a sentimental, sometimes awkward, but ultimately moving film about the growing-up of a black teenager in rural Kansas during the 1920s.
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Variety
Forty years ago, pioneer Gordon Parks had to step with extra care filming 'The Learning Tree' lest the door shut behind him.
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Product Description:
Director Gordon Parks' introspective, autobiographical film details life for a black youth in Kansas during the 1920s, as he learns about love, violence, and loss.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 31,456
- UPC: 883316316986
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