The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
10.0/ 10
TMDB Rating
1
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2009
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158 min
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Music
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In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
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opera
drug addiction
musical
south carolina
based on play or musical
cripple
poverty row
charleston
1900s
20th century
romantic drama
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