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November 24, 2017

At the Movies: ‘Mudbound' a moving epic of family, race

By SANDY COHEN
AP Entertainment Writer

“Mudbound,” an epic story poetically told by director Dee Rees. is a beautiful, complex and flawless film.

Themes of prejudice and discrimination are also central to the story of “Mudbound,” based on the award-winning 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan. Set in the American South in the early 1940s, it's both a tale of two families, one black and one white, and a portrait of an era beset by racism and rigid social rules.


 
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