SummaryMicah Mangena (Danny Glover) is a black police officer in a small township in apartheid-era South Africa. Mangena is overseen by white officers, but he trains mostly black recruits. When his son, Zweli (Maynard Eziashi), gets involved with a local anti-apartheid group, father and son find themselves on opposite sides of an increasingly dangerous ... Read More
Directed By:Morgan Freeman
Written By:Percy Mtwa, Brian Bird, John Wierick
Bopha!
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In its sober, nonassertive way, Bopha! takes on the tone and weight of a Greek tragedy. [24 Sept 1993, p.C1]
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It is on the family level that Bopha! realizes its most graceful power. [17 Sept 1993]
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Bopha! is a heartfelt and anguished cry. Though moored in historic/geographic specificity, it is an easily understood and universal tale.
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There’s sorrow here to fill a thousand Hollywood movies—and in the end, it swamps the boundaries of movie convention.
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While Bopha's belatedly tragic story is an affecting one - and is made all the more poignant by strong performances by Woodard and Eziashi - it will not seem entirely fresh to movie-goers weaned on such superior cinematic treatments of the subject as Chris Menges' "A World Apart" and Euzhan Palcy's "A Dry White Season." [29 Oct 1993, p.L25]
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The film features some fine performances and explores an intriguing set of themes, but it fails to ever take life, causing its laudable message to fall on deadened ears. [12 Oct 1993, p.C1]
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Good intentions are famous for paving the road to hell, but more often they just lead to well-meaning tedium.
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