If you loved The Great Debaters, try Fences
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Denzel Washington, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Great Debaters, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Fences is
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.

