Good Fences

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Good Fences ★½ 2003 (R)

In the mid-1970s, upwardly mobile black lawyer Tom Spader (Glover) moves with his wife Mabel (Goldberg) and their kids into a posh Greenwich, Connecticut, suburb and embraces all sorts of WASP-y behavior—much to Mabel's disgust. Self-indulgent and simplistic satire. Based on the novel by Ericka Ellis. 119m/C VHS, DVD . Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Mo'Nique; D: Ernest R. Dickerson; W: Trey Ellis; C: Jonathan Freeman; M: George Duke. CABLE

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