Rosewood

    • 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
  • Based on a true story, Rosewood is set in the town of Rosewood, Florida, whose black residents were the target of a vicious lynch mob in 1923.
  • 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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