Pinky Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 2467

Average Rating: 3.1/4

# of Ratings: 10

Theatrical Release Date: 09/29/1949

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 05/09/2010

Language: English

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: Elia Kazan

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Nina Mae McKinney, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael

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Rating of
3.5/4

Indyfreak - wrote on 11/20/2020

Excellently written message movie that's remarkably ahead of the curve with its depiction of racism and the notion of passing for white during the Jim Crow era. Jeanne Crain plays Pinky Johnson, a woman of color who's passed herself for white outside of her backwoods community in the Deep South. Crain is very good as someone constantly frustrated by the very wrong social standards of her day and trying to get out of it. Ethel Waters is equally good as her good-natured grandmother.

Rating of
3/4

Allison - wrote on 10/17/2008

Elia Kazan's movie about a black girl named pinky who passes for white is incredibly intriguing. Rejected by both whites and blacks in a small southern town, she has fallen in love with a white man who has no idea about her true race. It would be nice if color didn't matter, but in a time and place where this is a very real issue, Elia Kazan tackles it head-on.

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