A Patch of Blue
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Movie Reviews of A Patch of Blue
Movie Review: Everyone needs a little compassion.
Summary: 5 Stars
A Patch of Blue was a movie I saw on TCM awhile back and this film has never left my mind. Great performances, beautiful, heartbreaking story of a young, blind white girl who develops feelings for an adult, African-American man. At first, they are just friends, they meet in a park, he gives her confidence and she learns to trust a man for the very first time. They eventually fall in love, both know it's wrong and Shelly Winters gives another outstanding performance as the young girl's abusive mom. Sidney Poitier's performance is moving and quite remarkable. A Patch of Blue is everything you want from a classic film, I highly recommend this tearjerker!Movie Review: I only wish I could be as patient and helpful
Summary: 5 Stars
Problem is I'm a little blind myself. Elizabeth Hartman gives a heartbreaking, but ultimately inspiring performance as a blind girl with a home life so terrible I wanted to reach into the screen and pull her out of there. Luckily, Sidney Poitier enters the picture and teachers her how to take care of herself, showing her how to walk in the city and how to read braille (she's in her twenties).
Shelly Winters is absolutely horrifying as her abusive, bigoted mother, and Wallace Ford is heartbreaking as the alcoholic grandfather. A must-see for fans of powerful drama.
Movie Review: A Patch of Blue
Summary: 5 Stars
Poitier shines in Guy Green's tender parable about the meaning of friendship, one of the first studio films to take on the charged subject of interracial love. Leisurely paced and simply told, "Patch" is worth sticking with, as uniformly fine performances carry the audience to a satisfying finish. Actress Shelley Winters took home an Oscar that year for her unsympathetic turn as Selina's racist, harridan mother.Movie Review: Oh man,this is a stunner
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't seen this film since it's original release.
I just watched it now and am blown away.
The soundtrack is just gorgeous and the acting is incredible by the entire
cast.
But how on earth didn't Hartman get an Oscar??
I will have to research and find out who beat her out.
You got to be kidding me if you don't think that was an oscar performance.
Movie Review: Racial melodrama!
Summary: 5 Stars
This drama only can be understood with historic glasses. We are in the middle of the bloody and terrible racial conflicts and this drama tends to show the lightened side of the coin. A blind woman , her overprotective mother and her black boyfriend conform the dramatic triangle in this paced movie loaded of mankind and noblesse.
Poitier and Winters are perfect.