Durante gli anni '70 ad Harlem, il netturbino Roop si sente spaventato all'idea di frequentare Claudine, una ragazza madre con sei figli.Durante gli anni '70 ad Harlem, il netturbino Roop si sente spaventato all'idea di frequentare Claudine, una ragazza madre con sei figli.Durante gli anni '70 ad Harlem, il netturbino Roop si sente spaventato all'idea di frequentare Claudine, una ragazza madre con sei figli.
- Candidato a 1 Oscar
- 2 vittorie e 5 candidature totali
- Charles
- (as Lawrence-Hilton Jacques)
- Charlene
- (as Tamu)
- Minister
- (as Harrison Avery)
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Lo sapevi?
- QuizDiana Sands was originally cast as the lead, but she died of cancer shortly before shooting began.
- BlooperWhen Claudine and her girlfriends are riding the bus at the beginning of the movie, the bus passes the New Marble Hill movie theatre twice.
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Claudine: What are you doing to do?
Charlene: Get married, and we'll both work.
Claudine: You'll both work? Together, you'll make one salary. And when the baby comes, they'll be three people living on half a salary. That's the half you can't even count on.
Charlene: Abdullah says that if...
Claudine: 'Abdullah says'? Abdullah's full of crap, that's what he is. He's just like all those other black studs. Full of crap!
Charlene: [close to tears] Mama, black men have made great contributions. George Washington Carver. W.E.B. DuBois. Frederick Douglass.
Claudine: Ain't if just too damn bad you didn't get your ass knocked up by Frederick Douglass!
- ConnessioniFeatured in America at the Movies (1976)
Claudine (Diahann Carroll) is a mother on welfare who works on the sly in order to support her six kids. She works very hard at low-paying jobs and has little time for anything other than her kids and work. However, when she meets a vivacious garbage collector, Roop (James Earl Jones), she is swept off her feet and they immediately start sleeping together (if guns have a three day waiting period, shouldn't there be a similar system for sex?). Soon, however, it goes from casual sex and good times to something serious--and that's when troubles begin. It seems that the welfare system is designed to prevent women from having families--and destroying marriage. What's to become of this couple and the six kids? See the film and find out for yourself.
The acting is the best thing about this film. In addition to Carroll and Jones' great acting, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs has a very auspicious film debut as Claudine's angry and mixed-up oldest son. The film also has a lot of great insights into the stupidity of the welfare system and what it was like to grown up at that time. However, and I know some folks will think I am a jerk for saying it, but I also couldn't help but feel that some of the problems were CLEARLY caused by the characters. Claudine has six kids she cannot take care of and then jumps into bed with Roop on their first date!! Morality aside, this is insane behavior and shows a nutty unwillingness to accept reality. Despite this dumb mixed message, the film, on balance, is well worth seeing.
- planktonrules
- 16 dic 2013
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Dettagli
Botteghino
- Budget
- 1.100.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 32 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1