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“The Deliverance” is a horror movie based on a true story that took place in Gary, Indiana. Glenn Close, who has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, is one of the great actresses of our times, and has not received the accolades as she deserves, stars in “Deliverance.”
Unfortunately, I don’t think she will receive any honors for this movie either, even though she is the best thing in this film.
Ebony and her three children and her mother, Alberta, experience strange incidents in their Gary, Indiana, home that grow progressively worse. Ebony’s children begin levitating, grow violent, and begin speaking in deep growls with no recollection afterward. Cynthia Henry, a case worker with the Department of Child Services, thinks that Ebony is abusing her children because they are covered in bruises. Reverend Bernice James, a local minister, took the supernatural occurrences seriously because a woman whose family lived in the house before murdered her family in the house. The women witnessed many of the incidents, including one in which Ebony’s 9-year-old son broke heavy leather bindings walked backwards up a wall.
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Andra Day stars as Ebony. Anthony B. Jenkins, Caleb McLaughlin and Demi Singleton are Ebony’s three children Andre, Nate and Shante.
Academy Award nominee Glenn Close is Ebony’ slutty mother, Alberta, who is suffering from cancer. The family is dysfunctional to say the least. Mo’Nique is the social worker, Cynthia Henry. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is Reverend Bernice James.
I thought the only problems with the acting could be attributed to the script. The script was written by Divid Coggeshall and Elijah Byrum. I had trouble following where the script was going several times. The grandmother had become religious but couldn’t save her grandchildren and the mother wouldn’t let the kids go to church with her mother, which made no sense. Even though this was based on a true story, it needed to make sense.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels directed. Daniels is usually a better director than this film. I think he should have had another re-write on the script.
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I think “The Deliverance” is a little bit like “The Exorcist,” which was also based on a true story that took place in St. Louis, but is not as good.
At the end of the film, they showed pictures of the real people and the real house that the story was based on. I think it would have been a better film if they would have called it “fiction based on true events” and left it at that.
Currently, “The Deliverance” is playing on Netflix. I give it 2 1/2 stars.
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Movie critic Mary Cox lives in Wood River and studied film at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has worked in L.A. with various directors and industry professionals.
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