on DVD and cable during the first week of February, so people can watch it at home if they prefer.

My wife and I have been eagerly awaiting it to be available on cable, but then she heard a movie critic last week say it was not as good as it could have been because the background of the lead female character is downplayed. He said it's not as racially/culturally inclusive as it should be, instead giving too much of the "white" perspective. I have no sense of whether that is a valid point, but it tempered my wife's desire to see the film a little.

It certainly does not give it from the "white" perspective. What was interesting to me is how it started - blacks and whites in rural Virginia spending time together, car racing, dancing, drinking. They all treated each other as pals.

And.. there were no KKK. Spouse said that had it been the opposite - white wife and black husband - the KKK may have arrived.

They both suffered and, I suppose, the husband being the only one working, it was hard on him to move and to find a new job in D.C. They both missed their families, their friends, their old way of life.

Both of them were arrested.

And, yes, the court system was dominated by whites. That's the way it was in the last 50s early 60s. The sheriff and the judge, the attorney and the ACLU pro bono lawyers. Also the reporters.

It came back to a discount movie theaters so we saw it at $2.50 a ticket