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About
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
Theatrical
Dec 25, 2016
Box Office
$64.4M
Budget
$24.0M
Return
2.7x
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 14, 2017
Theaters
1
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Paramount Pictures, MACRO, Bron Studios
Quotes
See all →Struggles of Love and Sacrifice in Marriage
Troy
It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standin in the same place for eighteen years!
Rose
Well, I've been standin with you! I've been right here with you, Troy! I've got a life too! I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot as you! Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me? Don't you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men, that I wanted to lay up somewhere, forget about my responsibilities, that I wanted someone to make me laugh so I could feel good? You're not the only one who's got wants and needs! But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs and dreams, and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you, and I waited for it to bloom. It didn't take me no eighteen years to realize the soil was hard and rocky, and it wasn't never gonna bloom! But I held on to you, Troy. I held you tighter. You was my husband. I owed you everything I had, every part of me I could find to give you - and upstairs in that bedroom, with the doctors fallin in on me, I gave everything I had to try and erase the thought that you wasn't the finest man in the world and wherever you was going, I was gonna be there with you because you was my husband! Cause that's the only way I was gonna survive as your wife! You're always talkin about what you give and what you don't have to give... but you take, too, Troy. You take, and don't even know nobody's givin'.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Father's Aspirations for His Son's Future
Rose
Why don't you go ahead and let the boy play football, Troy? He just wants to be like you with the sports.
Troy
I don't want him to be like me. I want him to get as far away from my life as he possibly can get. You the only decent thing that ever happened to me, Rose. I wish him that. But I don't wish him nothin else from my life. I decided seventeen years ago that boy wasn't gonna get involved in no sports - not after what they did to me in the sports.
Rose
Why don't you just admit you were too old for the major leagues - for once, why don't you just admit that?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
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Denzel Washington
Troy Maxson
Viola Davis
Rose Maxson
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Stephen McKinley Henderson
Jim Bono
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Jovan Adepo
Cory Maxson
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Russell Hornsby
Lyons Maxson
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Mykelti Williamson
Gabriel Maxson
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Saniyya Sidney
Raynell Maxson
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Lesley Boone
Evangelist Preacher
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Christopher Mele
Deputy Commissioner
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Jason Silvis
Garbage Truck Driver
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Tra'Waan Coles
Towns person
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Joe Fishel
Parade Marcher
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Daniel James
Jaywalking Pedestrian (uncredited)
