The Loving Story2012
The Loving Story (2012)
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Cast
as Mildred Jeter Loving
as Richard Perry Loving
as Robert Pratt
as Bernard S. Cohen
as Philip Hirschkop
as Peggy Loving
as Sydney Jeter
as Donald Loving
as Garnet Jeter
as Lola Loving
as Kenneth Edwards
as Lewis Jeter
as Edward Ayers
as Raymond Green
as Ruthie Holliday
as Robert Pierpoint
as Hope Ryden
as Abbott Mills
as Caitlin Congdon
Critic Reviews for The Loving Story
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The tone of the film is solemn and pious, which seems almost inevitable when the topic is segregation and racial intolerance. But there are other reasons to watch this film besides feel-good expediency.
Their story is a powerful statement about freedom.
A low-key but moving documentary about two low-key people and their moving struggle.
The film strikes a quiet, contemplative tone that befits its soft-spoken subjects rather than the tumultuous times in which they lived.
The Loving Story is a different kind of 1960s civil rights tale, one that in many ways has a deeper level of warmth.
One of the many virtues of Buirski's film is that it doesn't hit viewers over the head with the parallel between the Lovings' case and the debate over same-sex marriage.
Audience Reviews for The Loving Story
A powerful bit of history everybody should know. A very well put together documentary.
Super Reviewer
"The Loving Story" is an insightful and informative documentary about the landmark Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated anti-miscegenation laws across the country and would eventually pave the way for same sex marriage. The story starts simply enough with Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving getting married in the District of Colombia in 1958, due to their native Virginia outlawing interracial marriage. After returning, they were arrested and convicted under the state's Racial Integrity Act, and under a suspended sentence, were told to leave the state. In 1963, Mildred wrote then Attorney General Robert Kennedy to inquire if any of the current civil rights legislation would apply to them. He said no, maybe they could try the ACLU... One of the highlights of "The Loving Story" is listening to audio recordings of Supreme Court arguments which I had never heard before.(One of the lawyers says being in front of the Supreme Court was like looking in the face of God.) While I normally don't favor the approach of relying on archival and previously shot documentary footage, here it works well to let us not only get to know the couple at the heart of the case but also what it was like to live in a time and place that was a lot more complicated than any of us had been led to believe.
Super Reviewer
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