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  • 1993
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 2 h
  • 1993
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 2 h

Summary Micah Mangena (Danny Glover) is a black police officer in a small township in apartheid-era South Africa. Mangena is overseen by white officers, but he trains mostly black recruits. When his son, Zweli (Maynard Eziashi), gets involved with a local anti-apartheid group, father and son find themselves on opposite sides of an increasingly d...

Directed By: Morgan Freeman

Written By: Percy Mtwa, Brian Bird, John Wierick

  • 1993
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 2 h
  • 1993
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 2 h

Bopha!

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Summary Micah Mangena (Danny Glover) is a black police officer in a small township in apartheid-era South Africa. Mangena is overseen by white officers, but he trains mostly black recruits. When his son, Zweli (Maynard Eziashi), gets involved with a local anti-apartheid group, father and son find themselves on opposite sides of an increasingly d...

Directed By: Morgan Freeman

Written By: Percy Mtwa, Brian Bird, John Wierick

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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59% Positive
10 Reviews
41% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
In its sober, nonassertive way, Bopha! takes on the tone and weight of a Greek tragedy. [24 Sept 1993, p.C1]
By Edward Guthmann FULL REVIEW
80
It is on the family level that Bopha! realizes its most graceful power. [17 Sept 1993]
By Duane Byrge FULL REVIEW
80
Bopha! is a heartfelt and anguished cry. Though moored in historic/geographic specificity, it is an easily understood and universal tale.
By Leonard Klady FULL REVIEW
67
There’s sorrow here to fill a thousand Hollywood movies—and in the end, it swamps the boundaries of movie convention.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
50
While Bopha's belatedly tragic story is an affecting one - and is made all the more poignant by strong performances by Woodard and Eziashi - it will not seem entirely fresh to movie-goers weaned on such superior cinematic treatments of the subject as Chris Menges' "A World Apart" and Euzhan Palcy's "A Dry White Season." [29 Oct 1993, p.L25]
By David Baron FULL REVIEW
50
The film features some fine performances and explores an intriguing set of themes, but it fails to ever take life, causing its laudable message to fall on deadened ears. [12 Oct 1993, p.C1]
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
50
Good intentions are famous for paving the road to hell, but more often they just lead to well-meaning tedium.
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Production Company Arsenio Hall Communications, Taubman Entertainment Group
Release Date Sep 24, 1993
Duration 2 h
Rating PG-13
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