SOME PEOPLE BUILD FENCES TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT - AND OTHER PEOPLE BUILD FENCES TO KEEP PEOPLE IN. Academy Award? winner Denzel Washington* and Academy Award? nominee Viola Davis** deliver the "performance-driven masterpiece"? of the year in the film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Set in 1950s Pittsburgh, the film takes a passionate look at former Negro-league baseball player Troy Maxson (Washington) as he fights to provide for those he loves in a world that threatens to push him down. Washington's directorial triumph "connects with people on a deep, emotional level"?? and pulses with the universal truths of love and forgiveness, despite what lies beyond your own fence.
?April Wolfe, Village Voice ??Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times