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• Actors: Halle Berry, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Michael Ealy, Terrence Howard, Lorraine Toussaint
• Directors: Darnell Martin
• Writers: Bobby Smith Jr., Misan Sagay, Suzan-Lori Parks, Zora Neale Hurston
• Producers: David Salzman, Kate Forte, Matthew Carlisle
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 29, 2005
• Run Time: 113 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AJJNMM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,133 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Their Eyes Were Watching God" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No Tribute to Zora Neale Hurston, February 14, 2006

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This review is from: Their Eyes Were Watching God (DVD)

After reading the book, I watched the film. What a disappointment the film was. The filmmakers have taken a book that explores the differences between women and men as well as issues of race, prejudice and class difference, and turned it into little more than a formulaic romance novel. I note that most of the reviewers who rated the film highly had not read the book. I encourage you to do so. It is such a rich novel--far richer than the film. What the screenwriter has done is purge the movie of all the more difficult issues the book deals with. Gone is Mrs. Turner's discussion of race and her prejudice against darker-skinned people. Gone is Janie's jealousy as well as the explanation for Tea Cake's violence (of course, Tea Cake's violence is gone, too, because he's supposed to be the romantic hero; romantic heroes can't hit their wives as Tea Cake does in the book). Gone are the conversations on the porch of Joe Starks store. Gone is Nanny's explanation of her reasoning for Janie's marriage to Logan Killicks. It's really too bad that the production company didn't have faith in Zora Neale Hurston's story and felt they had to over-simplify it; I'm sure the audience could have handled it in all its complexity.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Their Eyes Were Watching God...NOT!!!, February 3, 2006

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Jamie and Cristina - See all my reviews

This review is from: Their Eyes Were Watching God (DVD)

I didn't enjoy the movie because I expected it to be more like the book which was way more interesting. The book had so much more detail it gave more examples, more to imagine. There's a part in the book were it shows a Ms. Turner, but in the movie there was no Ms.Tuner. Another part is when he has to bury dead bodies it shows nothing about that in the movie. The movie cuts out a lot of parts that were in the book. Maybe if i would of just saw the movie it would have been better, but since I read the book first I expected more scenes.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Their eyes were watching god, February 3, 2006

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Leo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Their Eyes Were Watching God (DVD)

In the movie their eyes were watching god there were a couple of differences and a couple of similarities. Like in the book and in the movie she had three husbands Logan, Joe and Tea Cake. Some diffrences are that in the movie she wasn't sitting under the pear tree like they described in the book. And in the movie tea cake did't hit her like he did in the book. In the book he didn't gamble the money, he spent it at a party and then got it back by gambling. And ms. turner was never in the movie. I think that the book is much better than the movie because it has more detail.