The Rape of Recy Taylor

Name: The Rape of Recy Taylor
Genre: Documentary
Released: December 8, 2017
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Alma Daniels, Crystal Feimster, Cynthia Erivo, Danielle L. McGuire, Esther Cooper Jackson

2017

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The Orchard | Release Date: December 8, 2017

Starring: Alma Daniels, Crystal Feimster, Cynthia Erivo, Danielle L. McGuire, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack Kyser, James Johnson II, Robert Corbitt, Tom Gibbs, Tommy Bernardi

Summary: The Rape of Recy Taylor is the epic story of sexual violence in Jim Crow South. It is the little-known story of courageous black women who waged war to take back their bodies and their dignity, and whose vocal protests helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement 10 years later. Boldly speaking up against her rapists and putting her life andThe Rape of Recy Taylor is the epic story of sexual violence in Jim Crow South. It is the little-known story of courageous black women who waged war to take back their bodies and their dignity, and whose vocal protests helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement 10 years later. Boldly speaking up against her rapists and putting her life and that of her family’s in grave danger, Recy Taylor attracted the attention of the NAACP and their chief investigator Rosa Parks. Parks, commonly believed to be a tired seamstress who refused to give up her seat on the bus in 1955 triggering the Montgomery Bus Boycott, was, in fact, an activist, working for years to undo years of criminal rapes and physical abuse against black women.… Expand

Director: Nancy Buirski

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 91 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Dec 14, 2017

The miracle, though, is that the movie isn’t a diatribe. Its voices...are gentle and persuasive, using the horrific details of the rape and its aftermath as ballast to stabilize a heart-wrenching history of systemic injustice. Read full review

David Rooney

Dec 7, 2017

With lucidity and deep feeling, Nancy Buirski's documentary maps an ugly trail of injustice and then widens its lens to pay tribute to the women of color whose refusal to be silent helped drive the evolution of the Civil Rights movement. Read full review

The Playlist Kimber Myers

Dec 7, 2017

As awful as the events of 1944 were for her, there’s ultimately hope in her story in how it fueled a movement and continues to inspire and push people today. Read full review

Justin Chang

Dec 7, 2017

Truths this scalding and plain-spoken need no such embellishment to be heard. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Dec 7, 2017

An enquiry into the brutal rape of a black woman in 1944 Alabama broadens into an alternative, female-gaze civil rights documentary in Nancy Buirski’s latest. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Dec 13, 2017

Timing alone makes The Rape of Recy Taylor something close to essential viewing. But Buirski’s approach is oddly diffuse, lacking the clarity of rage that has informed so many recent touchpoints in social-issue documentary. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Dec 8, 2017

This is all fascinating stuff. But you pretty quickly get the sense that Buirski either doesn't find it interesting enough to let it stand on its own or else is afraid audiences will rebel against too many bare-bones elements. Read full review

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bluesamsonite

Jun 10, 2019

Too meandering. Doesn’t reveal pictures of the perpetrators. Obviously told from a white supremacist point of view. Recy Taylor deserves better than this.

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