INSPIRATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

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	• Nightjohn Beau Bridges, Lorraine Toussaint Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, 2005 average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent

There's nothing I can add to the excellent reviews already written about this fantastic movie. I only wanted to add five stars to the rating to help balance out the wrongly-placed lesser stars issued by reviewers who found it wanting after comparing it to the book. No film should be expected to compete with a book.

Watch it. It will not disappoint.

INSPIRATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Nightjohn (Carl Lumbly--M.A.N.T.I.S.)gives up his hard won freedom to return to slavery for the sake of teaching letters to other slaves of the south. It costs him dearly, as it did in real tales of the ante-bellum south. A young slave girl, Sarny (Allison Jones), knows the value of education and learns her letters and numbers from John, a child, and her own hard struggles in self-teaching. It works but also eventually costs Sarny something, but she, like Nightjohn, has something no bad plantation owner can take away or sell. Letters!

I can't speak for the book by Gary Paulsen, or accuracy of adaptation, but this is a FANTASTIC DVD that if family friendly and should be shown to students to encourage them in their pursuit of knowledge to their highest potential. Older people, like me, can simple enjoy the heart-warming story.

There are a very few violent situations, treatment of slaves, that is primarily indicated and leading to, but not shown on screen. It has no bonuses, not even subtitles for the 'southern English' accents.

This film was created in connection to Disney and Hallmark so that almost guarantees a worthy 5-star production. It comes across as very realistic, quite believable, and a solid gold message not often found in southern plantation period films. It's all about freedom, education, and goodness in people.

A sixth star should be awarded for the VERY REASONABLE PRICE.

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VERY GOOD

I loved this movie---especially when they're in the church at the end! Wish they had elaborated more on the ending though. But is good and worth the money.

Gator teacher

I ordered this video to show my class after we read the book by Gary Paulson. My students enjoyed it and it is appropriate for school with no language and the violence is shown off screen with the exception of a whipping scene as in the book. My students only complaint was that it did not follow the book accurately. We never saw Nightjohn return and Sarny was not sold off in the book. It made for an interesting comparison/contrast writing assignment. Overall, it is a good young person film and gives an antiseptic picture of the antebellum south.

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Media Type: DVD
Artist: BRIDGES,BEAU
Title: NIGHTJOHN
Street Release Date: 02/28/2006

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