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- 1965
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
- 1965
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
Summary A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.
Directed By: Guy Green
Written By: Elizabeth Kata, Guy Green
- 1965
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
- 1965
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
A Patch of Blue
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Summary A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.
Directed By: Guy Green
Written By: Elizabeth Kata, Guy Green
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
73
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Film has very good scripting plus excellent direction and performances, including an exceptional screen debut by Elizabeth Hartman as the gal.
Moving 1965 love story with the late Elizabeth Hartman giving an excellent performance as a tormented blind girl who falls in love with the only person who treats her kindly (Sidney Poiter). It was Hartman's debut, and she and director Guy Green succeed in keeping it from becoming overly sentimental. [23 Aug 1990, p.F5]
This moving story neatly avoids melodrama.
In hindsight, it all looks like a rather tentative Hollywood essay at the race angle, but the actors do mesh together convincingly despite the obvious narrative contrivances, and debut girl Hartman's persuasive account of the everyday travails of the sightless is engrossing without overdoing the self-pity.
Shelley Winters won an Oscar for being her own unbearable self (as Hartman's nagging mother) and Guy Green (The Magus) directed with eyes on the noble Kleenex box and visions of Stanley Kramer running through his noggin.
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Laurel Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
