All too ironically titled as it details in lethargic and sometimes convoluted fashion the stories of the many heroic and often unsung figures involved.
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07/06/04
With All Deliberate Speed (2004)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 14 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Synopsis: Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court public school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED chronicles the experiences of two towns involved in the lawsuit (which represented six separate cases), and provides insight into... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Joe Morton, Larenz Tate, Alicia Keys, Mekhi Phifer, Terry Kinney
Director: Peter Gilbert
Screenwriter: Nathan Antila
Producer: Adam D. Singer, Nancy Lebrun, Peter Gilbert, Joe Quinlan, Tommy Walker
Composer: Ben Sidran, Leo Sidran
Screenwriter: Nathan Antila
Producer: Adam D. Singer, Nancy Lebrun, Peter Gilbert, Joe Quinlan, Tommy Walker
Composer: Ben Sidran, Leo Sidran
Reviews
1 - 19 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
The struggle it illuminates may continue today, and for a while to come. The battle continues. But its first veterans command our immediate respect.
05/19/04
Gets most of its juice from listening to groups of people who were students and activists in segregated Clarendon County, S.C., and Prince Edward County, Va., during the years leading up to the case.
05/14/04
Few viewers are likely to learn much from the film about what the momentous court decision half a century ago was really all about, or how to meaningfully address the inequities that still plague our public schools.
05/14/04
The film's saddest contention is that five decades later American public schools remain economically segregated by economics, which too often produces classrooms whose complexions have changed little since the pre-Brown era.
05/14/04
It's a great concept -- but it's done in by an unfocused and uninspired presentation.
05/14/04
Speed doesn't boast much in the way of innovative storytelling. What it does offer is a story that still badly needs to be told.
05/14/04
The film is at its most quietly powerful ... when telling the story of a group of African-American high school kids who took their discontent to the highest court in the land.
05/14/04
It deserves a place alongside such other essential civil rights documentaries as Eyes on the Prize and Freedom on My Mind.
05/14/04
America moves imperfectly toward the goal of equality, but because of Brown vs. Board of Education, it moves.
05/14/04
Top Critic
Rather than merely chronicling the events leading up to the May 17, 1954, Supreme Court decision ... the film explores both its effect and ways in which it has fallen short in creating true equality.
05/13/04
Top Critic
Peter Gilbert's documentary tells the story leading up to the Supreme Court's historical 1954 decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case.
05/13/04
Top Critic
As a document of his history, it's breathtaking, inspiring stuff. As an overlong documentary, it still manages to be inspiring, but also an uphill viewing experience.
05/13/04
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05/13/04
Gilbert's great achievement lies in his integration of disparate historical threads and voices into one steadily paced, riveting tale.
05/12/04
The events themselves, captured in vital newsreel footage of the period, speak volumes, as perhaps does their unfinished legacy.
05/12/04
Top Critic
While the filmmaker avoids a conventional episodic format driven by central characters in conflict, he hasn't created one that could keep a complex story clear.
05/11/04
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