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- Summary: George Stevens, Jr.'s one-man play with Laurence Fishburne as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, was filmed at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater for HBO.
- Genre(s): Drama
- Show Type: TV Movie
- Season 1 premiere date: Feb 24, 2011
- Episode Length: 105
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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100It is the seamless weaving of Marshall's personal biography with the story of his tenure as chief counsel for the N.A.A.C.P., where he worked to challenge the separate-but-equal doctrine used to justify racial segregation in the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, that keeps Thurgood a work of such enthralling theater and television.
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90It's just plain good--fast-paced, emotionally engaging and even transporting at times. Much of the credit goes to Fishburne's performance, but there other important factors, like the way in which Stevens' script captures Marshall's liberating sense of humor, and the rich look of the overall production.
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50It probably works better onstage, but Stevens should know that what you do to achieve suspension of disbelief in a theater is not what you do to convince an audience that what it is seeing in a film is real.