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- Release Date: February 21, 1997 (USA)
- Director: John Singleton
- Screenwriter: Gregory Poirier
- Producer: Tracy Barone, Jon Peters
- Distributor: Warner Bros.
- MPAA rating: R
- Run time: 140 minutes
- Awards: Nominated for four Image Awards
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Plot Summary
After a white woman from the neighboring town of Sumner unfairly accuses a black Rosewood resident of raping her, her townspeople begin massacring the Rosewood blacks. White Rosewood store owner John Wright (Jon Voight) and a black drifter named Mann (Ving Rhames) team up to save the innocent victims.Cast
- Jon Voight: John Wright
- Ving Rhames: Mann
- Don Cheadle: Sylvester Carrier
- Bruce McGill: Duke Purdy
- Loren Dean: James Taylor
- Esther Rolle: Aunt Sarah
- Elise Neal: Beulah (Scrappie)
- Robert Patrick: Fanny's lover
- Michael Rooker: Sheriff Walker
- Catherine Kellner: Fanny Taylor
- Akosua Busia: Jewel
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Rosewood on Amazon
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Charcoal Companion Non-Stick Rectangle Basket with Rosewood Handle - $16.99
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Victorinox Cutlery 3-1/4-Inch Paring Knife, Rosewood Handle - $15.60
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Rosewood - $14.96
A shameful chapter in American history is powerfully dramatized in Rosewood, but moviegoers in 1997 may not have been ready for the African American equivalent of Schindl...Amazon
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