A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue

By Guy Green

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1965-12-10
  • Advisory Rating: NR
  • Runtime: 1h 45min
  • Director: Guy Green
  • Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 9.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
7.5/10
7.5
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Description

Elizabeth Hartman ("The Fixer") is a warm-hearted, impoverished blind girl who falls in love with a black man and refuses to make an issue of their racial differences. Poignant and touching Oscar-nominated romantic drama co-stars Oscar-winner Sidney Poitier ("In the Heat of the Night," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"). Hartman received an Oscar-nomination and co-star Shelly Winters ("The Poseidon Adventure," "Lolita") won for Best Supporting Actress.

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  • The Little Movie Masterpiece

    5
    By Screenplayhouse
    If you think you might like this -- don't rent: buy it. See the beauty of the world through a blind girl. Poitier must fight for screen time with (at the time) unknown Elizabeth Hartman, who deservedly took the Golden Globe for Best Actress. This film wasn't released in the South back in 1964, and based upon today's continued racism, wouldn't be remade period. It's that good.

  • Amazing Film

    5
    By kganthropology
    I saw this film on the Turner Classic Movies channel and loved the idea of the film. So I taped it and watched it at least once a week for about year, This movie is about the plight of a blind white girl who grows up in a troubled home with her hussy mother and alcoholic grandfather. She is befriended by an educated, generous black man and eventually falls in love with him. They don't make movies like this anymore!

  • Wonderful Film

    5
    By smalltownreviewer
    I was a theater usher when this movie came out in the mid-1960s. I saw it 36 times, and I loved it every time I watched it. Sidney Poitier gives a typically great performance, and Elizabeth Hartman is convincing as a sheltered blind girl. The messages embedded in the movie are obvious and universal. I don't know why A Patch of Blue isn't played on the movie channels more. It is well worth renting or buying. I highly recommend it.

  • Beautiful

    5
    By drifting wood
    Movies like this aren't made anymore. Truly touching and beautiful.

  • Ahh, I love this film...

    5
    By la joya
    This is one of my favorite films of all time! Compelling story, excellent performances, beautiful music and cinematography. 5 stars!

  • WOW FIRST ONE TO WRITE

    5
    By IdolGirl_29
    I love this movie because it's a delightful movie when you want to set by a fire on a good night and pop some popcorn! Even though it's in black and white movie it has lots of meaning two of the creatures who plays in them, like Sidney Poitier and Shelley Wintersm are while know actors and actress they did a really good job in this movie one of my favorites even though I am only in my 20' that's all I am going to say.

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