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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300271081 Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen ISBN: 6300271080 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: December 12, 1994 Running Time: 107 minutes Sales Rank: 671 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Description: Film adaptation of Gordon Parks's autobiographical novel about his youth in Kansas.
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Rating: - The Learning Tree
I am a retired high school teacher & first saw a VCR copy of The Learning Tree when our class read the book & saw the film back in the 1970's. The film was so well done & loved by teachers & students. I've never forgotten the story & want to see it on DVD & to give it as gifts,
Rating: - Thanks, Mr. Parks
The Learning Tree, is one of the best movies ever made, and yet, it has yet to be released on DVD. The first time I saw it, which I think was in my early twenties, I was absolutely blown away. Everything about it from the cast to the story line, was brilliant. Gordon Parks and everyone else involved, did an excellent job, and if I see it a hundred times, it will be as if it was released, yesterday. It's the kind of film, that you could never get enough of, and in case you don't remember, the 70s offered little, in the form of great black films, which is another reason why this, deserves to be made ... Read More
Rating: - This Classic Needs To Be On DVD!!
I have loved this film from childhood and have
taped it down through the years.
But in this day and age of DVD, I think it's ridiculous
that they have released all the old "pimps & ho's"
blaxploitation flicks of the late 60's and early 70's,
yet are reluctant to release treaures like this one
as readily!
The late Gordon Parks did an excellent job of bringing
his book (a recount of his coming of age in 1920's Kansas)
to life with vivid performances by some young actors
and a few of the old school legends of that time
who ... Read More
Rating: - Excellence should be more popular
I put this film in the same category as such films as Where the Red Fern Grows, The Yearling, or Sounder. It deals with harsh subjects (racism, murder) but in a gentle way or should I say in a way that is straightforward and isn't gratuitous or sensational. I would say its closest modern counderpart is Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored. Definately an underrated classic.
Rating: - The Learning Tree: As Pure as the African-American Spirit
This movie is a classic because it is real. Not only is the setting incredible, but the clothing, the speeech patterns and the general atmosphere make "The Learning Tree" a potentially powerful and impactful learning tool as swell.
Its the 1920s south and there isn't one black person who doesn't have a grandparent or a great grandparent who doesn't remember those times. The acting in this movie leaves a great deal to be desired, but the story is so powerful that you can relate ot every character. Newt, the young boy (Gordon Parks as a child) is polite, considerate and curious. The movie ... Read More
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