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Synopsis: Sassy Janie Starks looks unlike to get anywhere in pre-Great War Easton, Florida, but lands the best colored catch, lively shopkeeper Joe Starks, who even becomes town mayor. However her refusal to oblige his expectations of decency turn love into bitterness. After his death, she prefers to enjoy 'freedom' again, with cocky outsider 'Tea Cake' as playmate, and not just at chess. They even face the risks of seasonal labor.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Darnell Martin
Production: ABC
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Year:
2005
113 min
2,509 Views


'cause I heard 'em walking in my room

I knowed it was the blues

'cause I heard 'em walking in my room

Lord, I wonder what's the matter

that the blues just won 't leave me alone

oh, blues, blues

Won't you let poor me be

oh, blues, blues

Won't you let poor me be

And let me have one day

out of the seven days a week

I'm goin' over Hamilton County,

get us another plow,

- Can I go with you?

- You stay here, help me out some,

That porch need cleanin',

Cut up them seed potatoes,

Don't spend all day daydreamin',

SIaughter that runt, and bleed 'im good,

I want chops for dinner,

So that's a no?

Next time,

OK, Oh,,,

Move it, Go on,

Go on, before you become ham hocks,

- Put my pig down,

- Not if you're givin' him to the foxes,

I'm tryin' to Iet him go, Put him down!

Go on, Go on,

Think you're bein' kind?

He'II be dead before morning,

I ain't kind in no kind of way,

Your momma and poppa gonna

give you hell for settin' them pigs free,

They dead, And I don't care

what my husband thinks, neither,

Husband?

Went to get a plow,

so I can help in the fields,

Lord, gal,

you got no more business behind a plow

than a hog got with a holiday,

Pretty Iady Iike you need to be treated

Iike a Iady every single day of your Iife,

My name is Joe Starks, I'm from Georgia,

Where you headin', Mr, Starks?

Down the road a ways, Some colored folks

got together, made their own town,

All-coloredtown?You...

Yeah, they called it Eatonville,

I'm plannin' to get there

while the town's still a baby,

Seem Iike a tall tale to me,

Maybe you need

to come with me and see it,

Can't,

Guess you better get goin',

If you change your mind,

tomorrow after the sun come up,

I'm gonna be waitin' on you,

Right down that road,

Mr, Starks!

Keep it,

What would you do if I was to Ieave you?

Leave me?

You but 1 7 years old,

You don't know nothing about the world,

I know enough,

You don't appreciate my good treatment,

do you?

No, it ain't that,

Janie,

I got 60 acres,

And I ain't no young man,

in no kind of way,

When I pass,

everything I got passes to you,

But what if I was to Ieave you?

What would you do?

Do what you got to do,

I'm goin' to sleep,

(Janie) Joe Starks had spoke

about change, And chance,

And even if he wasn't there waiting for me,

the change was bound to do me good,

Hey, girl!

(Janie) I thought I was gonna have

flower dust and springtime

sprinkled over everything,

Joe bought me all kinds

of pretty new clothes,

And I became Mrs, Joe Starks,

Can you fellows tell us

how far we at from Eatonville?

We hopin' to get there by nightfall,

Y'all in Eatonville now,

This is it?

This is it,

This don't Iook Iike

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, her most popular is the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family in 1894. Eatonville, the first all-black town to incorporate in America, would become the setting for many of her stories and is now the site of the Zora! Festival, held each year in Hurston's honor. In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research while attending Barnard College. While in New York she became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her short satires, drawing from the African-American experience and racial division, were published in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire!! After moving back to Florida, Hurston published her literary anthropology on African-American folklore in North Florida, Mules and Men (1935) and her first three novels: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934); Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937); and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939). Also published during this time was Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938), documenting her research on rituals in Jamaica and Haiti. Hurston's works touched on the African-American experience and her struggles as an African-American woman. Her novels went relatively unrecognized by the literary world for decades, but interest revived after author Alice Walker published "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" in the March 1975 issue of Ms. Magazine. Hurston's manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives. Her nonfiction book Barracoon was published posthumously in 2018. more…

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