Rosewood

A dramatisation of real events from 1923, when a lynch mob attacked the African American community of Rosewood Florida.

  • Director

    John Singleton

  • With

    Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle

  • USA 1997. 140min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    18

Inspired by real events that took place in 1923, Singleton’s film initially captures life in the idyllic African American hamlet of Rosewood, Floria, which is adjacent to the all-white working-class town of Sumner. When an extramarital affair in Sumner turns sour, a spurned woman lies to cover her tracks and before long, her tall tale sends a brutal lynch mob into Rosewood to seek revenge for a crime that never happened.

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