User Reviews

Every time I see that this movie is on TV again, I get SUCKED IN every time and have to watch it to the end!

It does such a great job communicating about a culture that I know so little about. I feel like I was invited in-it is so painfully real.

The writing, the acting and the directing is so well done. It also feels like a play.

It's honest. 9/10

The Women of Brewster Place (1989) is a movie I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a lady who becomes pregnant young and decides to move to the city from the country to raise her son. She goes through the trials and tribulations of being a black single mother with little to no help to make it. As she gets older she helps other people like her who are suffering the struggles of living in the streets in the same neighborhood she raised her son in...

This movie is directed by Donna Deitch (Heroes) and stars Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple), Robin Givens (Boomerang), Cicely Tyson (The Help), Paul Winfield (The Terminator), Lynn Whitfield (Eve's Bayou) and Phyllis Yvonne Stickney (New Jack City).

This is a very entertaining story that isn't as dramatic and impactful as similar films like The Color Purple. The acting and script are very good and the circumstances while predictable at times are well though-out and delivered. The storyline starts off with a brutal father/daughter scene. The conversations at the hair stylists were hilarious. The son in this is annoying and the baby sequence is as sad as it gets. The depiction of the ghetto and challenges within are very well delivered.

Overall this is a very well done film that isn't perfect but is definitely worth a viewing. I would score this a 8/10 and strongly recommend seeing it once.

This one will be taking up residence in your head days after you watch it. For me, it's Oprah Winfrey's amazing performance as Mattie and David Shire's beautiful underscore. Oh, and the ending will send shivers down your spine and maybe even get you choked up with a tear or two.

I looked into whether or not this had been nominated for Emmys and discovered that it was largely snubbed. Sure, it had two nominations, one for Mini-Series and another for. Paula Kelly, but I feel like it deserved a whole lot more. Oprah certainly deserved a nomination, David Shire needed one for his underscoring, and I would've liked seeing some acknowledgment for the cinematography.

All in all, it's a great flick.

Excellent drama about a group of women living in an apartment building. This explores all their lives and shows how everyone is struggling through something. jackee comes out the best! This movie is dramatic, hilarious and heartbreaking. Such lines as "You shoulda thoughta that before you started breeding em like roaches!" and Jackee's one liners during the tenants meeting had me laughing out loud. Highly recommended!!!!!!

I read the novel in my college African-American literature class and loved it. When I saw the movie version, I was very happy with the way it was done. Jackee steals the movie with her presentation of Etta Mae. Oprah does a good job as well. This movie stayed really close to the plot of the story. If you want to read the book, but don't have the time, you could probably just watch this movie and pick up on everything that is crucial. A-

This movie is phenomenal. The entire cast plays a major role in this film by individually impacting viewers in various scenes throughout this television drama. Opray Winfrey gives an outstanding performance. Mothers all over the world can relate to her in this production. This film is sensational because of the directors' ability to depict a particular culture before millions watching in a very tasteful and true-to-life way. During some of the scenes you could actually feel raw emotion and that type of acting is not easy to master. I wish I could bottle it! As a producer myself, I look for such dynamics, which is uncommon.--The*LadyPhenomena*Show{Andrea*LadyPhenomena*Stephens}

It's hard to see the poverty of Brewster Place when everyone looks pretty middle class with nice clothes. Also what year is it? Oprah's in the 50s, the drug dealers from the 80s and Robin Givens, I'm not sure. There's slot of speeches and "performances" in BP edited together to make a movie. I do like the movie well enough but it should have been more fleshed out. Characters like Cora Lee are basically explained to you in a time saving effort.