Rustin

Movie

2023

1h 48m

PG-13

English

Drama, History

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6.7

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Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

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Rustin

PG-13

Movie

2023

1h 48m

English

Drama, History

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Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

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6.7

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Cast

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Colman Domingo

Bayard Rustin

Aml Ameen

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A. Philip Randolph

Roy Wilkins

Tom

Elias Taylor

Dr. Anna Hedgeman

Cleve Robinson

Ella Baker

Rep. Adam Clayton Powell

Lilli Kay

Rachelle

Grantham Coleman

Blyden

Jules Latimer

Joyce

Maxwell Whittington-Cooper

John Lewis

Jim Farmer

Whitney Young

Coretta Scott King

Mahalia Jackson

Claudia Taylor

A. J. Muste

Lucille Randolph

Girl One

Medgar Evers

Male Staffer Jim

TN Mother

Directed By: George C. Wolfe

Written By: Dustin Lance Black (Screenplay), Julian Breece (Screenplay), + 1 more

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Lee Brown Barrow says...

10 months ago

An important historical event doesn't have the impact it should have in this film. That isnt to say the film is bad...its just lacking in real power.

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miguelreina says...

9 months ago

[Netflix] Treats an important topic from a different perspective, and sometimes has script details that are notable and that allow Colman Domingo to be the main support of the film. It's interesting the treatment of Bayard Rustin's double struggle against the system because of his blackness, but also within the black community because of his homosexuality. But it is a biopic surprisingly lacking in emotion, except in a few flashes of great acting, too academic to transcend beyond a (necessary) history lesson.

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The_Argentinian says...

9 months ago

A conventional by-the-numbers message picture. The whole movie builds up to the march and when it finally comes I'm like "that's it? Bad green screen background?" Also, stop trying to make Chris Rock a serious actor, ffs.

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Gusanito1886 says...

10 months ago

Great acting by Colman Domingo in an otherwise okay movie. Would be 5,5 or 6 without his performance for me.

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ben.teves

9 months ago

Rustin (2023) is the story of the conception and execution of the 1963 March on Washington. It features many historical figures as characters, including Martin Luthor King, Jr. (Aml Ameen), Roy Wilkins (Chris Rock), and Adam Clayton Powell (Jeffrey Wright) – but most predominantly, Bayard Rustin ( More

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Brent Marchant

12 months ago

Unsung heroes often don’t get their day. Fortunately, however, for civil rights activist Bayard Rustin (Colman Domingo), principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, he’s finally getting his due in this new biopic about the many challenges he faced in bringing this event into being. The More

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CinemaSerf

12 months ago

Colman Domingo is pretty good as the eponymous, gay, civil rights organiser who not only had the problems of his colour, but of his fairly open sexuality to deal with as he tries to organise a massive march to the American Capitol. The goal of the march is to keep the pressure on the Kennedy adminis More

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