A Patch of Blue

A black man's burgeoning love affair with a blind white girl is complicated by her racist, controlling mother.
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  • ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.35:1
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: December 9, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1965
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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User Ratings: 5,762
Rating: 4/4 -- A wonderful twist on the adage that love is blind. Full Review
Cinema Sight
Aug 15, 2011
Rating: 4/5 -- Effective drama that was something of a breakthrough at the time.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Sep 11, 2003
Rating: 3.5/4 -- An enormously moving drama featuring a remarkable debut by 21-year-old Elizabeth Hartman. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Jun 22, 2019
Goldsmith's variety of work makes 'A patch of Blue' one of those works that could be labeled as essential within the master's vast trajectory. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
Espinof
Aug 23, 2019
Rating: 5/5 -- A beautifully moving film.
Fantastica Daily
Oct 9, 2005

Description by OLDIES.com:

Selina D'Arcy (Elizabeth Hartman) lives a life of servitude with her mother, Rose-Ann D'Arcy (Shelley Winters), who's a prostitute and grandfather who's an alcoholic until the day she goes to the park to string beads for extra cash. There she meets the first kind person she has ever known, Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier). The two quickly develop a deep bond, but Rose-Ann -- who can see only bad in any man -- tries to separate her daughter from the African-American Gordon, believing that a life of prostitution would be better for Selina than happiness with a black man.

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  • Sales Rank: 20,844
  • UPC: 888574106645
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