# Fences (2016)

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**Runtime**: 139 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Denzel Washington
**Written by**: August Wilson
**Starring**: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson

> *Some people build fences to keep people out, and other people build fences to keep people in.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Pittsburgh 1957. A garbage collector seethes behind a swing set he can’t afford, sparring with his ambitious wife and a son who wants to skip Sunday church for football. The yard’s collapsing fence mirrors the cracks in every relationship he tries to hold together. A freight-train monologue in a worn living room delivers more than any Sunday sermon could.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 7.2/10 (122477 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 79/100

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