MISS EVERS' BOYS

MISS EVERS' BOYS - 1997

RATED - PG for theme & related elements.

RATINGS - 15 Amazon (4.5/5), 333 IMBD (7.1/10), 74,690 Netflix (3.8/5).

AWARDS - 4 EMMYS plus 1 GOLDEN GLOBE plus many nominations and other wins.

STARRING - Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer.

THEMES - Racial discrimination, government cover up.

STORY - Another outstanding movie from HBO based on the true story of a sad and tragic chapter in our country's medical history. Well worth watching and contemplating where might those kinds of things be going on right now. Governments are made up of people who are good intentioned but with flawed thinking or perhaps outright corrupt and nowhere has this been more true than in the area of racial discrimination. It's still hard to imagine living in the North with the kind of discrimination African-Americans lived with in the South, even though it certainly wasn't just a southern problem. Highly recommend.

The following is from the product description: "Based on the shocking true story, Miss Evers' Boys exposes a 40-year government backed medical research effort on humans which led to tragic consequences. It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers (Alfre Woodard) is invited to work with Dr. Brodus (Joe Morton) and Dr. Douglas (Craig Sheffer) on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease included Caleb Humphries (Laurence Fishburne) and Willie Johnson (Obba Babatunde). But when the government withdraws its funding, money is offered for what will become known as "The Tuskegee Experiment", a study of the effects of syphilis on patients who don't receive treatment. Now the men must be led to believe they are being cared for, when in fact they are being denied the medicine that could cure them. Miss Evers is faced with a terrible dilemma-to abandon the experiment and tell her patients, or to remain silent and offer only comfort. IT is a life or death decision that will dictate the course of not only her life, but the lives of all of Miss Evers' Boys."

LINKS - AMAZON, IMBD