This is a great movie, and protrays the actual events tastefully. Only wish I couldve gotten this on DVD.
June 24, 2008 |  | Follow-Up to Another Review |  |
In another review, someone asked what happened to the real Mr. and Mrs. Loving. I have read several newspaper/magazine about the Lovings. Richard Lovings was killed in a car accident shortly after he and Mildred were able to return to Virginia permanently. Mildred became blind in one eye as a result of the accident. Mildred is still living in Central Point, Virginia (the town where she and Richard grew up and met), but she does not want to be bothered by the media. For the reviewer who said the movie did not explain why Mildred and Richard got together, I have an answer to that as well. The town where the Lovings grew up had been racially mixed for decades, and had a long history of peaceful, friendly relationships between blacks and whites, as well as many interracial relationships. So, a white man and black woman becoming romantically involved (and the white man respecting and not using the black woman) was nothing unusual.
March 30, 2005 | | Flawed exploration of a milestone | |
The story falls short in bringing Mildred and Richard alive. It jumps too quickly into the love story, failing to acquaint us with either of them as a person, failing to give us any idea why a rural working-class white man born and raised in the Jim Crow South would choose to marry the black woman he loved instead of enjoying her in the bushes, as his contemporaries did with their communities' tacit approval. Is Richard noble, or mentally deficient? This movie will never tell you. Nor are you told what Richard's parents thought of his marriage. We never see inside Richard and are given but limited glimpses into Mildred. Still, it is a significant movie because it tells a story few Americans know about their history.
The Loving decision is getting a lot of attention these days because the legal definition of "marriage" is at stake. At the time of the Supreme Court's decision in 1967, interracial marriage was banned in sixteen states, including Virginia (thus a minority, not a majority, of the United States). Interracial marriages had been celebrated elsewhere in America, and legally, since shortly after the first blacks arrived here hundreds of years ago. So it isn't true that "blacks and whites have only been able to marry each other since 1967." At the end of the movie, though the caption gets the number of states wrong, at least it is made clear that it was a minority of states that banned interracial marriage in 1967.
January 19, 2005 | | Better than average telefilm on interracial marriage | |
One of the better TV movies, Mr. & Mrs. Loving focuses on the real-life story of a white man and an African-American/Native American woman who marry in DC but live in Virginia. Virginia prosecutes them for violating its anti-miscegenation statutes, and the case eventually makes its way to the Supreme Court.
To answer the reader below, Mr. Loving died in car accident in 1975, but the Lovings had 3 children prior to his death. February 28, 2004
| | | Where are the "real" Mr. and Mrs. Loving? | |
I have seen this movie. I thought it was wonderful!!! Thumbs up to the actors Lela Rochon and Timothy Hutton for bringing such an emotional story so realistically to life. I cried during several scenes when I first saw the movie. I don't think the chemistry would have been the same with any other actors. What I have wondered about since seeing this movie, is where are the "real" Mr. and Mrs. Loving today? Are they still together? If so, do they still live in VA? Where are their children? Does anyone know? I think they should do a documentary on the "real" Mr. and Mrs. Loving.
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