Freeman (1977, Dick Anthony Williams, Louis Gossett, Chip Fields, Richard Ward, Paulene Myers)

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  • Freeman (Dick Anthony Williams) pretends to be a lawyer, runs for city council, and wants to buy an abandoned building to start a production line company. While his dreams seem sensible, Freeman's reality is that he's broke, living with his parents and pregnant wife, and getting into trouble. His friend Rex (Louis Gossett), a successful businessman, wants to help Freeman but can't support his erratic decision-making.

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  • @jameshhenderson8243
    @jameshhenderson8243 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Dick Anthony Williams was underrated. He was can excellent actor.

    • @Mystic_Mary
      @Mystic_Mary หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Pretty tony

    • @carolanestanley4030
      @carolanestanley4030 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I agree!❤

    • @user-kr6km9id2h
      @user-kr6km9id2h 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Dick Anthony Williams is so much more !!! We need more actors like him...dignified, interesting, intelligent and handsome. Rest in Power 🙏🏾🙌🏾🤎

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      He was never underrated. He was an excellent character actor who always worked until his last days from cancer

  • @kellyi.4353
    @kellyi.4353 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

    The Good Times connection of 1977. That same year, Freeman's parents were on Good Times as a couple (Lean and James's dad). Freeman's wife (Chip Fields) was on Good Times and played Penny's (Janet Jackson's) mom. In 1976, Lou Gossett Jr. played Florida's brother. Prior to that, in 1975 he played Thelma's (much older) love interest.

    • @dree2295
      @dree2295 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      With the exception of I think Chip Fields, all these folks were on The Jeffersons, too. Paulene Myers plaid the Willis' maid. Lou Gossett played George's friend who hit on Louise. Dick Anthony Williams played an old friend of Helen's. Richard Ward was in several episodes of the Jeffersons as well.

    • @chriso8193
      @chriso8193 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@dree2295 Also, Richard Ward was the original Captain Dobey in the Starsky & Hutch pilot. Four years later with 5 episodes left Ward appeared in an episode and once the show canceled, he passed a couple months later.

    • @lisathomas3082
      @lisathomas3082 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Wow. How bout that!

    • @Sapphire586
      @Sapphire586 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dree2295 Yep, he (Dick Anthony Williams ) was in that episode when Tom took lessons from George to "act black."😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣

  • @GetTheGrandFunkOut
    @GetTheGrandFunkOut 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    This movie that aired Sunday, October 9, 1977, was uploaded six days ago, and I have never heard of nor seen it till now!

  • @lillolf3758
    @lillolf3758 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    I've known sooo many Freemans! And, there are sooooo many in the world today.... It breaks my heart!

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      The sad part is that in 2024, we have the ability to better ourselves, yet we collectively still want to remain Freemans 😢

  • @DoshonFarad1914
    @DoshonFarad1914 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Wow. This is my first time every hearing of this movie. It came out the year I was born.

    • @raineyj560
      @raineyj560 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      💯 never heard of it as well. Appreciate the upload.

    • @geegee637
      @geegee637 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It's a play not a movie

    • @quandricorutledge
      @quandricorutledge หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This a play, GREAT BLACK THEATER!

  • @kincamell2
    @kincamell2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Gratitude for sharing.
    Uptight, Five on the Blackhand Side, The Learning Tree and J.Ds Revenge are classic films.

  • @ghanasoul
    @ghanasoul 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    I saw this on my TH-cam menu and figured I’d give it a chance. This was EXCELLENT! Thank u VERY much for posting. Kinda interesting that in 1977, Richard Pryor was the hottest thing in Hollywood as far as black actors. Meanwhile, these actors were subjected to doing a PBS special. Shows u Hollywood wasn’t ready for this kind of talent.

    • @amenamem
      @amenamem 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What's wrong with a PBS special? Have you ever seen Great Performances? Mainstream Hollywood movies are mostly low-brow entertainment with gratuitous sex and violence, perversion, blasphemy, product placements, and propaganda. Maybe that's why those movies get all the financial backing.

    • @andreatrue3054
      @andreatrue3054 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was sorry to see the story end.

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Neither was the African continent. Knock it off. Blacks the world over were obsessed with non black shows😊

  • @creswellformey7654
    @creswellformey7654 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    Fantastic post! Makes me sad that, among this brilliant cast of heavy-hitters, Chip is the only one still with us.

    • @ReggieMosbyJr
      @ReggieMosbyJr หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Chips Fields is also still alive

    • @creswellformey7654
      @creswellformey7654 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@ReggieMosbyJr That’s literally what I said above.

    • @Alma-999
      @Alma-999 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@ReggieMosbyJr Isn't that Kim FIelds mother? They look just alike

    • @TraceyYSmith
      @TraceyYSmith หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@Alma-999 Yes, Chip Fields is Kim Fields mom.

  • @lenevee4925
    @lenevee4925 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    This awesome play had my emotions up and down like a roller-coaster. I had high hopes for Freeman, but he needed a reality check. The whole cast was great. I love Chip Fields ❤

    • @beanbean321
      @beanbean321 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why did you write that Freeman needed a reality check ?

    • @lenevee4925
      @lenevee4925 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@beanbean321 Because I am entitled to my opinion. Freeman had potential but he didn't seek a higher education, nor did he want to work eventhough he had a spouse that he beats and a child on the way. He was looking for shortcuts while blaming everyone but himself, so yes, he needed a reality check by seeing his life for what it really is.

    • @beanbean321
      @beanbean321 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@lenevee4925 : I need to apologize . I wrote that before I saw the entire play . Now I understand why you wrote that . Sorry .

    • @lenevee4925
      @lenevee4925 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@beanbean321 No worries!

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Our mothers, grandmothers and aunties had Freemans in their lives. Super ambitious, yet lacking the bankable skill sets, foresight, grit and knowledge to achieve anything of real value. Sadly, it's gotten worse 😢

  • @KritTeekDeZigns
    @KritTeekDeZigns หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This was the best Black 5 cast GREAT actors and actresses in one setting, with an amazing story line, I've ever seen.

  • @renewashington791
    @renewashington791 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Over the years I’ve Learned that **Humility** is Something Wonderful to have but Certainly Hard to Acquire 😔

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      This is art imitating life in our community. Now, Freeman isn't monogamous nor lives with the mother of his child.

  • @adnerbnomrah9076
    @adnerbnomrah9076 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    Chips Fields is good actress. She should have gone further in the industry.

    • @consciousone2993
      @consciousone2993 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      She actually did! She’s an amazing acting teacher & coach. Most actors that we enjoy watching today were taught by her.

    • @andrebissent5733
      @andrebissent5733 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Facts

    • @Tikipunch9
      @Tikipunch9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Chip is a director, and producer.

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@consciousone2993so many low information comments from low information individuals. This lady was an excellent actress that went very far. Best of all she brought her daughter into the industry 😊

  • @CurvyTribune
    @CurvyTribune หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I really enjoyed this film 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @carllee7122
    @carllee7122 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Dick Anthony Williams aka Pretty Tony!
    In the 70s classical trained black actors were settling for roles as gangstas, pimps, drug dealers and prostitutes. It was awesome to see all the positive characters they portrayed.

    • @veshaw.
      @veshaw. หลายเดือนก่อน

      They settled what were the other options Shakespeare, mark Anthony

  • @dree2295
    @dree2295 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    The dad's speech with tears in his eyes at 50:40 just breaks my heart. I feel so sorry for parents who have kids like Freeman!

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      We have communities of Freemans. Nothing's changed

  • @kishagreen4578
    @kishagreen4578 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Freeman ideas could actually work if he had the support of his family. His parents seem to have more love for Rex than they own child. Your family can birth your dreams and also killl them.

    • @VChildress-td4qm
      @VChildress-td4qm หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Broad he had was weak

    • @Michelle-hk7us
      @Michelle-hk7us หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      His WIFE was the WORST!!!

    • @Michelle-hk7us
      @Michelle-hk7us หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@VChildress-td4qm VERY!!!! Toxic like a disease.

    • @lisawallace921
      @lisawallace921 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Preach 🙏

    • @sherribatko8981
      @sherribatko8981 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      His family couldn't see beyond their own nose, Freeman can never succeed with a wife and family like this
      NO vision

  • @kiki1965
    @kiki1965 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Wow... Most of them did cameos on Good Times. Awesome... 🤩

    • @NotfromDetroit
      @NotfromDetroit หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes indeed! I still watch that show today❤

    • @kelvintorrence5994
      @kelvintorrence5994 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't good times was never good.everthing bad.i didn't even let me children watch it till they got their own homes I didn't grow up like that and I didn't want that in their minds a white man's thinking of black life even if it happens.

  • @carltaylor5251
    @carltaylor5251 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is such a wonderful movie I wish I had discovered it earlier.

  • @sharifbenyisrael6493
    @sharifbenyisrael6493 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I am Freeman. I know how it feels to not have no one believe in your dreams and aspirations.

    • @kimberly8695
      @kimberly8695 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      His dreams would have been a lot more feasible if he had an education and knew about writing a business plan. Plus he's cursing his parents and slapping around his pregnant wife.

    • @veshaw.
      @veshaw. หลายเดือนก่อน

      No I'm freeman 🤬🤬🤬

    • @veshaw.
      @veshaw. หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kimberly8695 shut up 🤬🤬🤫🤫

  • @BOSSLADY-cu8vs
    @BOSSLADY-cu8vs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    This was really a great film, Thank You for uploading it.

  • @V334432
    @V334432 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I read some of the comments and I don’t understand. Freeman was a weak man. He beat his wife. He hurt his father till he had tears in his eyes. He refused to finish school. He constantly blamed everyone for his failures.

    • @NkrumahTure
      @NkrumahTure หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Freeman unfortunately wanted success without the academic and professional training a person needs to succeed. He seemed to think he could slide in just by determination. The friend, portrayed by Lou Gossett didn't help either. In a real-life scenario, a man would be too old and ridiculous to play himself out by fantasy like that. It's almost laughable.
      Freeman was deserving of his fate.

    • @CJ1hunnid
      @CJ1hunnid หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Man nobody helped. Especially his wife. ​@@NkrumahTure

    • @veshaw.
      @veshaw. หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This really shows how horrible black folks are towards each other

    • @ronalddowdell9231
      @ronalddowdell9231 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Freeman is the type of black man that was too proud to humble himself and work his way up from the bottom. He wanted everything fast....dreams with no work remain just that...dreams.

    • @ElaineSewell
      @ElaineSewell 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​Unfortunately a lot fall for the purposeful divisive strategy@@veshaw.

  • @Giggy7373
    @Giggy7373 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thank you thank you for posting this movie!! 🙏🏾

  • @racyo8755
    @racyo8755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I love all of these actors ❤

  • @pgangsta357
    @pgangsta357 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    He could play Wilt in a movie. RIP to the ancestor.

    • @raineyj560
      @raineyj560 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      & George Gervin

    • @lenevee4925
      @lenevee4925 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I was just thinking about that! Williams could play Wilt or Dr. J.

  • @ananmai8700
    @ananmai8700 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Lou Gossett Jr, is just like one of my brothers, NEVER wants Freeman to get ahead, Freeman, informed about that Building, Lou went behind Freeman back & bought the building, the Election too, Friends like that, do not need No enemy...

    • @lisawallace921
      @lisawallace921 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Exactly ❤

    • @ananmai8700
      @ananmai8700 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lisawallace921 I have my very owned brother need to distract from what benefited me & next one stolen my girlfriends away, I am the last one. I just permanently separated myself from the entire Family...

    • @shelleywoods2578
      @shelleywoods2578 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I believe you're misplaced. Freeman's way of accomplishing things were chaotic. Rex stuck with Freeman after all he did, and got him a job to take care of his family. Rex still helped the community at large and made a promise to Freeman's parents which he kept his word. Freeman played the blame game and wouldn't take accountability for his actions or himself and he was abusive especially to his wife.

    • @ananmai8700
      @ananmai8700 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shelleywoods2578 You advance ONE sided fool, Rex, wants to be on Top Period, Rex, went BEHIND, Freeman back & bought the building what Freeman informed Rex about, ETC, I have a Half-brothers MORE worsen then Rex. Again, need ALL is Black Friends should look-up at rex. Ok, then, Did Rex, allow Freeman, to Enter in the Business for buying the building? No, Rex, went in the Business by himself... Friends like Rex, who need enemy...

    • @shelleywoods2578
      @shelleywoods2578 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ananmai8700 name calling is not necessary. Everyone can have an opinion that you don't agree with. I feel sorry for you. God bless you anyway.😜

  • @eovibequeen
    @eovibequeen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Life is chess not checkers✨. You gotta know when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em 🤠✨.
    FREE-MAN✨knows who he is 👑💜✨ but was not disciplined enough to get it what he wanted 💔✨.

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      While I generally agree, Freeman was extremely condescending & too prideful for his own good.

    • @eovibequeen
      @eovibequeen หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@TalesForTheCulture Agreed✨. Pride comes before the fall. Humble yourself and learn from others. Freeman✨ was told to write the vision and make it plain but he just wouldn’t listen 🤦🏽‍♀️😔✨.

  • @davidmitchell4092
    @davidmitchell4092 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    First Time Seeing This ,Terrific Story So Many Layer's To It ,Dare I Say It Should Be Considered a Minor Classic.

  • @jackmeoff9116
    @jackmeoff9116 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Great acting..$15k In 1977 is equivalent to $77k in 2024!!

  • @Ranlyron
    @Ranlyron หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wanted Freeman to win. I feel like he still quit that job at the end. He wanted more and his faith was strong regardless of his negative family. Great movie thanks for posting

  • @CookingWithDee_
    @CookingWithDee_ หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    T to his was such a great movie with outstanding legendary actors. Loved it!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @ChanelNo5568
    @ChanelNo5568 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Freeman talking all that ish, while he and his pregnant wife live in his parents house that they paid for.

    • @kelvintorrence5994
      @kelvintorrence5994 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She's right and his dad was wrong kick that sucker out and get on his own 2 feet

  • @Angela-pi6zc
    @Angela-pi6zc หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wonderful! Thank you

  • @olejazzer
    @olejazzer หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great upload. Who knew that Mo' Better Blues, The Mack, and Player's Club legend was capable of range. Lorraine Hansbury would be proud of this take on A Raisin In The Sun

    • @amenamem
      @amenamem หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Dick Anthony Williams was a star on stage before he worked in films. Hollywood producers cast black actors for 70s TV shows from the NYC black theatre scene.

    • @amenamem
      @amenamem หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This is an original work from the late great Phillip Hayes Dean who is best known for his play "Paul Robeson." His plays are in print. Please check them out. His works and the works of Ms. Hansbury are not the same.

    • @teenatchie1313
      @teenatchie1313 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lorraine, Dick, were native to Chicago raisin in the sun true story of Lorraine life she has a housing complex named after her in Chicago called hansberry park !!!

  • @LisaLisaCJ
    @LisaLisaCJ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    Grandpa Evans and Lena !😅😅

  • @Zaradikaresells
    @Zaradikaresells หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I really enjoyed this treasure

  • @shelleywoods2578
    @shelleywoods2578 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had never heard of this movie before, and I'm so glad I watched it. I felt sorry for Freeman in so many ways. He had to be made humble, and his biggest problem was himself, which he could not see. The cast was excellent and story line had depth and meaning. Freeman was a broken soul and also abusive . Their was leadership and he was very smart yet all misplaced. I know someone just like Freeman.

  • @lillolf3758
    @lillolf3758 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Lou Gossett...❤😢 RIP

  • @eileenl.-godsservant777
    @eileenl.-godsservant777 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is the 1st time I have seen this film. I'm only 5 minutes into it & it's interesting to see the older couple sleep in separate beds while the younger couple sleeps together! To be continued...... 😊

  • @michaelalexispalmer3375
    @michaelalexispalmer3375 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Every time Rex comes over he's bringing bad news!

  • @gfjchs3n1
    @gfjchs3n1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Excellent!❤

  • @MikeWalkerSBC
    @MikeWalkerSBC หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Fantastic teleplay. Freeman needed to be evaluated, though.

  • @Sapphire586
    @Sapphire586 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Dick Anthony Williams,besides God Times & the Jeffersons, was also cast in both 1979 movies Sister, Sister (Diahann Carrol's love interest) ,& Saundra Sharp's (she was torn between 2 lovers)in The Hollow Image.

  • @lisabaxter7786
    @lisabaxter7786 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    😊❤wow didn't know about this good nice shared

  • @user-ty5yw5so8b
    @user-ty5yw5so8b หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Good Movie 🎥 Made me feel a little Down! The Struggle is Real..

  • @kennethtaylor9999
    @kennethtaylor9999 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Pretty Tony!!!!

    • @1talldaddy
      @1talldaddy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      along with Henry,Lena and Penny's mama from Good Times.

    • @Noway673
      @Noway673 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pretty Tony!
      When you hear grown folks talking shut the Fék Up.-MACK

    • @CAM941
      @CAM941 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Guess that was the sequel, He became a pimp

  • @amenamem
    @amenamem 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This was brilliant. The wife asked her father-in-law if he thought that a child was marked by the name he was given. Freeman was marked from the very beginning by his name. He was a free man - an ambitious free thinker. He saw what could be instead of just accepting things as they were. The tragedy is everyone around him wanted him fettered by convention and his socioeconomic status, i.e. to know his place and stay in it.

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @amenamem No, everyone wanted him to be responsible. Go to work & provide for his growing family. Stop being condescending towards actual hard working people & acting like he's too good for them, despite not having finished college himself. He had the opportunity, but he squandered it & tries to blame everyone else.

    • @amenamem
      @amenamem 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@TalesForTheCulture Agree to disagree. The parents admitted that they poured more into Rex than they did their own son. Freeman had never fit into anyone's expectations. They understood Rex's path - to be a doctor. That was tangible, concrete. Freeman, on the other hand, was hard to pin down. You cannot force a right-brained child to become a left-brained child. If you've never had students like Freeman, then it's easy to judge him as flighty or insubordinate. Children like him get labeled as behavior problems. Freeman's mistake was getting married and starting a family before he discovered who he was. For the time period and his situation, the military would have been the best career move. My cousin made a successful life for himself in Germany and never looked back.

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @amenamem Freeman looked to be every bit of 40. He was middle-aged with a baby on the way, trying to enter politics. 🥴 Whatever excuse he had for not making something of himself had expired. When he lost the election, if he were responsible, he would've returned to work to provide for his growing family. He didn't. When he had the rare opportunity to go to college (which his parents paid for), he squandered it because he was too prideful. He stands in his own way all his life, yet wants to blame others. The very first thing he utters when his wife calls his name is "you're not in the cotton field". He thought he was too good for everyone, his wife, his parents, his best friend. Let him tell it, everyone is beneath him even though he has to depend on his parents for food & shelter at his big age!

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @amenamem Freeman looked to be every bit of 40. He was middle-aged with a baby on the way, trying to enter politics. 🥴 Whatever excuse he had for not making something of himself had expired. When he lost the election, if he were responsible, he would've returned to work to provide for his growing family. He didn't. When he had the rare opportunity to go to college (which his parents paid for), he squandered it because he was too prideful. He stands in his own way all his life, yet wants to blame others. The very first thing he utters when his wife calls his name is "you're not in the cotton field". He thought he was too good for everyone, his wife, his parents, his best friend. Let him tell it, everyone is beneath him even though he has to depend on his parents for food & shelter at his big age!

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @amenamem Freeman looked to be every bit of 40. He was middle aged with a baby on the way, trying to enter p0liTicks. 🥴 Whatever excuse he had for not making something of himself had expired. When he lost the el3cTion, if he were responsible, he would've returned to work to provide for his growing family. He didn't. When he had the rare opportunity to go to college (which his parents paid for), he squandered it because he was too prideful. He stands in his own way all his life, yet wants to blame others. The very first thing he utters when his wife calls his name is "you're not in the cotton field". He thought he was too good for everyone, his wife, his parents, his best friend. Let him tell it, everyone is beneath him even though he has to depend on his parents for food & shelter at his big age!

  • @CopperHueCollectionsChippewa
    @CopperHueCollectionsChippewa หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Her name is Chip Fields, not child Fields. That is Kim and Alexis Fields mother. Chip played Janet Jackson’s abusive mother on Good Times. Chip is the one who is solely responsible for the success of her daughter’s acting careers. Put some respect on that woman’s correct name!

  • @Mygracegrace
    @Mygracegrace หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    All that intelligence but he didn’t manifest it. A sense of entitlement that it should just be given. Not driven by action, just words. Good words but JUST WORDS. He didn’t have the belief of his people. His father started to pierce the idea that maybe his son… was on to a thing but they still wanted him to fit into the paradigm. Rex knew he had to play the game and leverage himself at the same time but freeman couldn’t postulate that for himself. Freeman was too free to no benefit for himself or anyone that now instead of pushing a bull, he pushing a mop. He still had chance if he STRATEGIZED better. But he just wants it to fall in his lap when he gets excited. No preparation. Paralyzed intelligent men transmute their paralysis into anger and the first one to receive it is their long term mate. Selfish. Black wormhole, just draining the life force out the family. Maybe the new child will be the one to break through or change the trajectory of the stalemate.

    • @Michelle-hk7us
      @Michelle-hk7us หลายเดือนก่อน

      you didn't see how NEGATIVE and IMMATURE his broad was? WOW...

    • @kimberly8695
      @kimberly8695 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I like your thoughts on this. Freeman makes me think of Eric K!lmonger. He's intelligent, socially aware, talented, and has raw ambition. But he's aimless. He doesn't have the necessary education to succeed in the corporate world, but he feels he can just walk right in and start running the establishment.
      He's like a strobe light--flashy, colorful, and tossing light to and fro, and can actually be stress-inducing. He needs to think and act with laser focus, concentrate his light on a goal and keep his eyes on it.

  • @venessabrunt6607
    @venessabrunt6607 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The seventies were a hard time for black peoples and especially the black man. This movie is a classic example of how one black man refused to help another black man when he actually could because he was too busy thinking about himself, which the black man learned this from the white society of dog eat dog just to get ahead. Freeman was neglected by society and he neglected his wife, thus making the domino effect of the dysfunctional family. 😢

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Brothers haven't improved much now either.

    • @venessabrunt6607
      @venessabrunt6607 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@neilrichardson7454😢

  • @lisawallace921
    @lisawallace921 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The GAME is still the same the PLAYERS is the the only thing that changed ❤they smile in your face backstabber.

    • @lisawallace921
      @lisawallace921 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He could have helped his friend on so many levels especially if his dad and mom help him dam parasite 🪱.

  • @kellyi.4353
    @kellyi.4353 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    6:25 would have NEVER happened in a real life black family. She threw an entire plate of food away just because Freeman didn't want to eat breakfast. SHE would have eaten it or it would have been put in the fridge for left overs.

    • @user-yw9dr4mj5o
      @user-yw9dr4mj5o หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I hear you. That was a little too dramatic for me. Black folks don't play with food like that. And what if she stopped up the toilet??

  • @raggaduxjones
    @raggaduxjones หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Was this a hit (at least in the Black community) when it came out because I’ve never heard of it before?

    • @amenamem
      @amenamem หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This was a televised play, a work from Phillip Hayes Dean. He is best known for his play Paul Robeson. His plays were and are performed in theaters around the country. Fun fact: most great works aren't Hollywood "hits."

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      No it wasn't. These shows were usually shown on a Sunday or Friday. The worst nights in the states to air shows. Very rarely do they have good ratings

  • @mahogany869
    @mahogany869 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Great movie!

  • @crystalhowardsgirls4874
    @crystalhowardsgirls4874 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wow that Reck Center could have employed the whole town, The so called Doctor stood on everyone else's shoulders.

  • @terryspivey4863
    @terryspivey4863 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for this gem!
    Black theatre giants directed by the late, great theatre director,
    Lloyd Richards (former Dean of the Yale School of Drama). The first black director on Broadway for "A Raisin in the Sun", mentor to Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance, many more. He's also the man who discovered the late August Wilson and directed six of his ten plays on Broadway, including Fences w/James Earl Jones, MA Rainey's Black Bottom w/ Charles Dutton.
    Also, check out the 1990's Hallmark tv adaptation of Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson" with Alfre Woodard, Charles Dutton, and Courtney Vance dir. Richards. It's on TH-cam.

  • @jameshhenderson8243
    @jameshhenderson8243 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Excellent movie. Excellent acting from a Black perspective.

  • @NATE_WORLD_TRAVEL
    @NATE_WORLD_TRAVEL 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    HOW COME I NEVER SEEN THIS SHOW...

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      It was shown during a time no one would be watching it. Or your parents or grandparents had better shows they wanted to watch 😢

  • @donltoys
    @donltoys หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Damn, Rex was a horrible friend smh

  • @macjones9376
    @macjones9376 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The woman in the pink night gown is Kim Fields (Facts of life,"Tootie" and Living Single, "Regine") mother

  • @GeorgeJansen
    @GeorgeJansen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    1:21:15. $75000 in 1977 is approximately $388360 in 2024

  • @joeclayton4967
    @joeclayton4967 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Amazing film

  • @bfred8714
    @bfred8714 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This looks like it premiered on PBS

    • @MsTexas73
      @MsTexas73 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s what I’m thinking as well. They still produce plays like this now at times.

  • @MrBmick79
    @MrBmick79 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Black Excellence, right here

  • @TalesForTheCulture
    @TalesForTheCulture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Wooow. Freeman wasn't SH*T! He was mad at everyone else for his life not turning out how he wanted. His dad worked "on the bull" to put a roof over his head, clothes on his back, & he got the opportunity to go to school, which back then was rare. He had the nerve to say that to his dad while living in HIS house , on his dime. Then, he treated his pregnant wife horribly. He needed that kick in the butt from Rex. It was long overdue.

    • @ninajefferson4018
      @ninajefferson4018 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That is f up!
      Wife plays this hurt
      vistim always complaining
      and dissing her old man.
      Parents don't got his back.
      Bf sold out to the system.
      Freeman's an activist
      wanting to promote his race
      Bf handing out birth control.
      Shaking my head

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@ninajefferson4018 He was the problem. End of story.

    • @blackford5439
      @blackford5439 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@TalesForTheCulturehe sure was...I know so many brothas like him...their Egos are bigger than their dreams.

    • @ninajefferson4018
      @ninajefferson4018 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@TalesForTheCulture nope.
      You ever been in a situation
      of abuse? No one will listen
      to what you're saying you feel
      like your going insane and
      you get louder & louder
      to be heard. And everyone
      around youz telling you
      "you're crazy you need help"
      No one hears you. There
      maybe exceptions but...
      He ran for office got robbed
      and cheated. He wanted
      to acquire that building
      make car covers be like
      UPS and have the staff
      own making the profits
      residuals. He wasn't the
      problem.

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ninajefferson4018 He was during this film. They had to MAKE him take a job that was practically handed to him. Imagine having a newborn child, no job & having the audacity to turn down not one, but TWO jobs being offered to you Selfish ain't the word!

  • @MrBmick79
    @MrBmick79 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    75,000 back then???? Rex was balling

  • @CAM941
    @CAM941 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fantastic Movie

  • @ChanelNo5568
    @ChanelNo5568 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    They all starred on good times except the son. Love chip❤❤❤

  • @ASMRvibes369
    @ASMRvibes369 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Freeman (a free-spirited, free-thinking, rebel soul) truly desired to be a free man in this oppressive system. He was simply embodying the true meaning of his given name.
    Freeman was consciously aware (woke), but his family and friend were not.

    • @amenamem
      @amenamem หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amen!

  • @AstroboyWunder416
    @AstroboyWunder416 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a powerful play. Freeman is what happens when a person has experience but no maturity. Intelligence, but no common sense. Potential but no purpose. A visionary who was blinded by his own pride. Ironically, in 2024 Freeman would have thrived and succeded. 😂

  • @pamelawalker3085
    @pamelawalker3085 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    GREAT Casting !!!

  • @neilrichardson7454
    @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    May you attain more subs. Your content are gems 😊

  • @dariusvbryant.
    @dariusvbryant. หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @sharifbenyisrael6493
    @sharifbenyisrael6493 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1:16:05 that's me every morning. 😔 a shell of my older self. No more challenges in life.

  • @gotzvonberlichingen6494
    @gotzvonberlichingen6494 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The opening theme is smooth as F

  • @alishagolden2952
    @alishagolden2952 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The classic "Crabs in a barrel". Freeman's parents, his wife and so-called friend had no faith in him. They couldn't see past poverty.
    There was a way to help Freeman. That doctor, he was all about himself. He was a user and very selfish. Then he talked Freeman into thinking that he couldn't be nothing but a janitor. I'm glad Freeman ended his friendship with him. Now maybe Freeman could do better.
    I hate this play!!!😠
    They made Freeman look so bad.

  • @blackford5439
    @blackford5439 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Good movie....I know so many Black men like this....They be the first ones to throw Blacks under the bus because he all about his EGO...its all that matters...

  • @KeenanJackson-h2d
    @KeenanJackson-h2d 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I don’t think I like this movie. It seems to me like Freeman has a bunch of great ideas and everybody around him is hating on him.💯

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @KeenanJackson-h2d Having great ideas does nothing to provide for your pregnant wife or family. He needed a job, which he had but thought he was too good for. Even after he lost the election, he didn't bother going to back to work, despite his wife being due any day. He was SELFISH.

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @KeenanJackson-h2d Having great ideas doesn't provide for your family. Anyways, he was extremely condescending & far too old to be playing the victim. He squandered every opportunity that was afforded him. Very ungrateful, even at his big age.

    • @KeenanJackson-h2d
      @KeenanJackson-h2d หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It was a great performance 🎭 I’ll give it that, I guess I see a lot of freeman in myself having many ideas,I feel like there’s a lot of guys like freemen who do accomplish their goals,it was like nobody supported what he wanted to do? Witch happens a lot in real life, I would love to see this plane turned into a film, and I would love to see Freeman succeed at becoming free. I think that was the under line message of even calling the play Freeman for him to eventually become a free man financially.🤔

    • @blackford5439
      @blackford5439 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No one was hating on him....his damn EGO was bigger than his dreams....

    • @blackford5439
      @blackford5439 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@TalesForTheCultureexactly

  • @luvellecummingsiii9438
    @luvellecummingsiii9438 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That set looks like the Bunkers

  • @derricksanders6112
    @derricksanders6112 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very very touching

  • @ChanelNo5568
    @ChanelNo5568 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Everyone Rex comes over or is involved, it’s bad news for Freeman😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @CruzRosa-kk1nl
    @CruzRosa-kk1nl หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Freeman was mentally and emotionally exhausting. I keep my distance and stay clear away from folks like him.

  • @blackamerican40
    @blackamerican40 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So the parents bear no responsibility for how their son turned out? 😮😡

  • @larissabrewington9065
    @larissabrewington9065 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Just read that Kim Fields is Chip's daughter!

    • @ChanelNo5568
      @ChanelNo5568 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yep and she has another daughter that is an actress named Alexis. Alexis is younger than Kim

    • @jameshhenderson8243
      @jameshhenderson8243 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I knew that when Kim was a child actor. A blind man can see the resemblance. lol.😂

    • @blackamerican40
      @blackamerican40 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Really? You didn't know that?!

    • @blackamerican40
      @blackamerican40 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chip used to beat on Janet on Good Times. 😮😅😊

    • @neilrichardson7454
      @neilrichardson7454 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@blackamerican40at least she's being honest.😊

  • @MsTexas73
    @MsTexas73 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This looks like a play that was produced on PBS. They put out a lot of them back in the day. Most of these actors are also members of the NEC (Negro Ensemble Company).

  • @VChildress-td4qm
    @VChildress-td4qm หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Freeman had his shortcomings and didn’t want to settle but, unfortunately he had a weak and unsupportive broad. He didn’t need her.

    • @kelvintorrence5994
      @kelvintorrence5994 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And that's why I didn't like good times either

  • @adrina911
    @adrina911 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Freeman should have gotten his GED and went to college, he have a wife and baby on the way and he won’t work in a pie factory. Freeman wants to be an accomplished man but he don’t want to put in the required work it takes to be successful.

  • @luvellecummingsiii9438
    @luvellecummingsiii9438 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This could have made a good sitcom

  • @kevinfuller5290
    @kevinfuller5290 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Is this the All In The Family set?

    • @DoshonFarad1914
      @DoshonFarad1914 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I asked the same thing.

    • @racyo8755
      @racyo8755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought the same ting

    • @joeclayton4967
      @joeclayton4967 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's what I thought

    • @Michelle-hk7us
      @Michelle-hk7us หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's what I said.

    • @renewashington791
      @renewashington791 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      No it is Not. It’s completely different than the **All In The Family Set**

  • @artgamechanger3841
    @artgamechanger3841 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Treasure.

  • @vidacruz9688
    @vidacruz9688 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    He looks very handsome

  • @wes1one
    @wes1one 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Jalen Rose in the house 😂

  • @patrickmeeks1060
    @patrickmeeks1060 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Rex was not a real friend

  • @ASMRvibes369
    @ASMRvibes369 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    💚 All glory, honor, praise, adoration, & thanks belongs to The Prime (First) Creator ONLY
    (NOT to white or black JESUS or any other IDOL, creation, entity, or power worshiped as The Prime Creator), just to
    The Almighty Power,
    The God above all gods,
    The Judge above all judges,
    The Most High &
    The Most High Power of TRUE Israel (so-called Blacks),
    The Most Wise/Strategic,
    The Most Lethal,
    The Most Loyal,
    The Most Merciful,
    The Giver of Life & Breath, &
    THE Creator of Heaven, Hell, Earth & the Omniverse (all universes), now & forever.
    Be fully aware, now. Full stop.

  • @msbkay
    @msbkay หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Freeman tried it!!!

  • @marvinwhittaker
    @marvinwhittaker หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That's Grandpa Evans and Lena or Nina

    • @Sapphire586
      @Sapphire586 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lena -his little gray haired Barbie Doll!!!!😉😉😉

    • @marvinwhittaker
      @marvinwhittaker หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sapphire586 Yeah I remember that line. She also was going to get a job as a topless waitress.

  • @GeorgeJansen
    @GeorgeJansen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    1:15:38. $15,000 in 1977 is appx $77762 in 2024

  • @poplifeinctv
    @poplifeinctv หลายเดือนก่อน

    Real Actors.

  • @natephillips1340
    @natephillips1340 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    He was never your friend

  • @taral5965
    @taral5965 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Freeman had delusions of grandeur and detached from reality. Sad but he did have a mental illness and needed mental health help

  • @Michelle-hk7us
    @Michelle-hk7us หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I detest the way the women were portrayed in this movie. Osa Lee was Completely useless and childish and Theresa was just a little bit better, she seemed to regard others more than her son.

    • @Mystic_Mary
      @Mystic_Mary หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You act like you don’t know any stupid black women😕. I saw one shoot another over church’s chicken in Memphis yesterday. Having dark skin and and being a female don’t make you smart