Rating: NR
Genre:
Historical Film
Release Date: 01/11/2005
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Sony Wonder
Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of
Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery and ended at the inception of the Civil Rights Movement. Northern journalist
Quentin Lerner (
Michael Murphy) travels to the racially polarized south of 1962 to interview
Ms. Pittman for a potential book. Her life unfolds in flashbacks, many painful and unpleasant, but just as many are uplifting and hopeful. Based on the novel by
Ernest J. Gaines and filmed on location in Baton Rouge,
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman won nine Emmy Awards, including Best Actress (
Tyson), Director (
John Korty), and Screenplay (
Tracy Keenan Wynn). The film premiered January 31, 1974, on
CBS.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide