The Journey of August King

1995
PG-13
1h 31m

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6.5/10

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August is a widower and is on his way home after selling his homemade products and buying the supplies and goods he needs for the coming year. On his journey, he meets a runaway slave girl.August is a widower and is on his way home after selling his homemade products and buying the supplies and goods he needs for the coming year. On his journey, he meets a runaway slave girl.August is a widower and is on his way home after selling his homemade products and buying the supplies and goods he needs for the coming year. On his journey, he meets a runaway slave girl.

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IMDb RATING

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Annalees
(as Thandie Newton)

Larry Drake

Olaf Singletary

Sam Waterston

Mooney Wright

Sarah-Jane Wylde

Ida Wright

Eric Mabius

Hal Wright

Muse Watson

Zimmer

John Doman

Bolton

Andy Stahl

Harrison
(as Andrew Stahl)

Danny Nelson

Felix

Collin Wilcox Paxton

Mina

Dean Rader-Duval

Gabriel
(as Dean Rader Duvall)

Billy Ray Reynolds

Marlus Harding

Sims
(as Marlus C. Harding)

Lisa Roberts Gillan

Meg
(as Lisa Roberts)

John Burnett Hall

Travis

Roy Bush Laughter

A. Duncan Shirley III

Porter

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Goofs
When Annalees (Thandiwe Newton) sees Sims hanging upside down, August calls her Thandie.

Quotes
[first lines]
Harry (Son): [running to injured dog] Gracie!
Ben: One of my bravest. Scars from 14 battles, if a one.
August King: I see 'em.
Ben: Father was a huntin' hound. Mother a German dog, Tan.
August King: Might live, you doctor it.
Ben: Eh, never get the courage back.
[reloading his rifle]
Ben: I know dogs.
August King: [feeds the dog some bread]
Ben: He's mangled her innards. Can't digest bread.
August King: Can chew it any way.
Boy: Come away, Rebekah. They're gonna have to send him up to the fields.
Little Girl: Why they have to do that?
Boy: 'Cause he can't walk anymore.
Narrator: In the North Carolina mountains, the early settlers traveled the roads taking their stock down to the market, and trekking back up again with supplies, and new stock for the months ahead. Among them was a man named August King. He had been waiting his turn most of his life, never doing anything much different from one day to the next. He was alone on his journey, walking at his own gate, slow and steady, making his fate home.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: White Man's Burden/Last Summer in the Hamptons/Wild Bill/The Journey of August King/Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)

Soundtracks
Pretty Bird
Written by Hazel Dickens
Performed by Hazel Dickens
over end credits
Courtesy of Rounder Records
over end credits

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8/10

The film has a strong moral message to give to the viewer.

The film has a strong moral message to give to the viewer. It raises a question on the mind: is it enough to be a person working for the well-being of himself and family in a honest way in order to be considered to be a good, honorable man? The answer is no. It is not acceptable to condone the cruelty or injustice of others, a conscientious man should fight against them.

At the very beginning of the film, there is a scene where a man kills his wounded dog. August King would like to stop him, but he did nothing, just turned back go his own way....At the end of the film he tells that he won't be the man he was used to be...i think he meant such situations...During his journey, August King turned to be a man who would not hesitate to break the rules to do whatever he thinks it is right to do.

In sum, the film is something much more than a love story and i very much liked it.