Mudbound

2017
R
2h 14m

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7.4/10

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Mary J. Blige, Jonathan Banks, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Carey Mulligan, Rob Morgan, and Jason Mitchell in Mudbound (2017)

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

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Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

55K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 36 wins & 117 nominations total

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Trivia
Mary J. Blige had an aunt who was very much like her character Florence, who had worked for (and raised a bunch of kids in) a white family who loved her. The experiences of her grandmother helped her in playing the role.

Goofs
Jamie picks up Ronsel during a pouring rainstorm, but when Ronsel enters the truck, he's completely dry.

Quotes
Hap Jackson: [narrating] What good is a deed? My grandfathers and great uncles, grandmothers and great aunts, father and mother, broke, tilled, thawed, planted, plucked, raised, burned, broke again. Worked this land all they life, this land that never would be theirs. They worked until they sweated. They sweated until they bled. They bled until they died. Died with the dirt of this same 200 acres under their fingernails. Died clawing at the hard, brown back that would never be theirs. All their deeds undone. Yet this man, this place, this law... say you need a deed. Not deeds.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Jeff Daniels/Mary J. Blige/Taylor Swift (2017)

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One Morning Soon
Written and Performed by Dr. C.J. Johnson
Courtesy of Savoy Records
a division of Malaco Records, Inc.

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7/10

An Important Film Even if Executed a little too slowly for me

I felt the film dragged in the first hour, but once the two boys came back from WWII, one from a white family and the other from a black family, the story was rolling. Very sick how young men who served in the war had to return to disgusting racism. A whole new fresh horror awaited them. After the ending, I felt I needed to watch Mississippi Burning just to get a feeling of justice. What a lawless hole the south was. After seeing all the black children murdered in recent years, Roy Moore's base comments in Alabama, and juvenile actions of Trump, I ask myself where is the leadership in America to finally address the over incarceration of black men, lax gun laws, police brutality, white privilege in the justice system, etc??

This film did not leave me with a sense of hope. After WWII, many black men moved to Europe where they were treated as equals. I realize the Mudbound story takes place in 1940s but do people actually think America is the land of the free today? I don't think so. And seeing Americans vote someone like Trump into power only makes those of us on the outside wonder ... what is the fate of this country? .