Beloved

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the physical and emotional aftermath of slavery is movingly filmed by director Jonathan Demme. In 1870s Ohio, ex-slave Oprah Winfrey struggles to provide for herself and daughter Kimberly Elise. Their haunted-in every sense of the word-homelife is changed by the arrival of fellow former slave Danny Glover and Thandie Newton, a mysterious young woman known as Beloved who's linked to Winfrey's past. 172 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital stereo; "making of" featurette; theatrical trailer.