| Record Number |
766883 |
| Title |
Fences [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Australia] Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia, [2017] |
| ©2015 |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (approx. 133 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2016. |
| Based on August Wilson's Pulitzer prize-winning play. |
| Special features : expanding the audience - From stage to screen - Building fences Denzel Washington. |
| Creation Note |
Directed by Denzel Washington ; screenplay by August Wilson ; produced by Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington, Todd Black . |
| Performer note |
Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, Saniyya Sidney. |
| Summary Note |
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : PG. |
| Language note |
In English, French Parisian. With subtitles in English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French Parisian, Norwegian, Swedish. English Captions (Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired). |
| Subject - Name |
Wilson, August -- Film adaptations |
| Subject |
African-American families -- Drama |
| Families -- Drama |
| Fathers and sons -- United States -- Drama |
| Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Negro leagues -- Drama |
| -- Drama. |
| Sanitation workers -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Drama |
| Historical films |
| Social problem films |
| Film adaptations |
| Feature films -- 2016 |
| Added Author |
Washington, Denzel, 1954- film director,
film producer,
actor. |
| Rudin, Scott, 1958- film producer. |
| Black, Todd film producer. |
| Wilson, August screenwriter. |
| Davis, Viola 1965- actor. |
| Henderson, Stephen actor. |
| Wilson, August Fences. |
| Added title |
Fences (Motion picture : 2016) |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F FENC |
