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Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed and co-produced by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, based on his 1985 play. It stars Washington, Viola Davis , Stephen McKinley Henderson , Jovan Adepo , Russell Hornsby , Mykelti Williamson , and Saniyya Sidney .
Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part " Pittsburgh Cycle ". Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations , among other themes.
Though he was a writer dedicated to writing for theater, a Hollywood studio proposed filming Wilson's play Fences. He insisted that a Black director be hired for the film, saying: "I declined a White director not on the basis of race but on the basis of culture. White directors are not qualified for the job.
Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed and co-produced by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, based on his 1985 play. It stars Washington, Viola Davis , Stephen McKinley Henderson , Jovan Adepo , Russell Hornsby , Mykelti Williamson , and Saniyya Sidney .
Washington attending the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000. Denzel Washington is an American actor known for his performance on stage and screen. Washington made his feature film debut in Carbon Copy (1981). [1] In 1982, Washington made his first appearance in the medical drama St. Elsewhere as Dr. Philip Chandler.
Fences is a 2016 American drama film directed by Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson. Starring Washington, Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo and Stephen McKinley Henderson, the film focuses on a man and his life, family, and job. [1] The film began a limited release on December 16, 2016, before opening wide on December 25. [2]
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Good Fences is a 2003 American comedy-drama television film directed by Ernest Dickerson and written by Trey Ellis, based on the 1997 novel of the same name by his wife Erika Ellis. The film is about the stresses of prejudice on an upwardly mobile black family in 1970s Greenwich, Connecticut .