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Rosewood
from Warner Home Video
starring Paul Benjamin, Jr. Mark Boone, Akosua Busia, Don Cheadle, Loren Dean
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List Price: $12.98
Price: $11.49
You save: $1.49 (11%)
Media: DVD
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Features:
- AC-3
- Closed-captioned
- Color
- Dolby
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
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One of my favorites
It doesn't matter how many times I have seen Rosewood. It always strikes the same emotions of sadness and anger. The movie is based on a true story of injustice and aimed solely at people of African Descent. Even though the main character played by Ving Rhames wasn't a factual person, the rest f the story is on point with what happened in history. The movie has great actors with Ving and Don Cheadle, and the story will hold your attention from beginning to end. Highly recommended movie.
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Too Painful to Watch Alone...
... despite the mitigation of a Hollywood love story and a fictitious super-hero, but still not as painful as the TRUTH, the true and well-documented story of an ethnic cleansing in Florida in 1923, when, over several days, European-American mobs attacked the peaceful and prosperous African-American village of Rosewood, in Levy County. During the attack, survivors estimated, as many as eighteen African-Americans and two European-Americans were. Most of the buildings, including churches and a school, were... more info
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