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List Price: $6.99 | | Label: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 7133
Released: June 7, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: BRIDGES,BEAU
Title: NIGHTJOHN
Street Release Date: 02/28/2006
Domestic
Genre: DRAMA
Nightjohn Reviews:
Excellent 
2009-08-20 - There's nothing I can add to the excellent reviews already written about this fantastic movie. I only wanted to add five stars to the rating to help balance out the wrongly-placed lesser stars issued by reviewers who found it wanting after comparing it to the book. No film should be expected to compete with a book.
Watch it. It will not disappoint.
Nightjohn Review 
2009-06-18 - After having my 8th grade class read the Gary Paulsen novel for class, I decided to purchase the movie. Needless to say the movie is nothing like the book. I agree that there was no need to show the brutality of the book, but there was also no need to completely change the storyline, adding events that just shouldn't have been there, as well as changing the outcome for Nightjohn and Sarny.
Story of a slaves in US in 1800's.
2009-05-30 - This is a story of slaves in the United States in the early 1800's. The scene of the fingers getting cut off because the person learned to read is graphic for some viewers. This DVD arrived on time in good condition. I recommend it for teaching slavery in American in social studies and English classes. It would appeal to middle school students and 9th graders in high school because the main character is the same age.
Excellent Film for Middle School or HIgh School
2009-04-02 - I teach pre-service teacher candidates who will be middle school and high school English teachers. I use this film in my course on Adolescent Literature. I encourage them to use this film in their middle and high school classes. This book and film can be used to help pre-teens and teens understand and discuss the cruelty of slavery. The film ends on a hopeful note and underscores the power of literacy. It is short enough to be shown in two sections and it is based on a book by an excellent young adult author, Gary Paulsen.
NightJohn**** 
2008-12-13 - This is one of the movies I can/t seem to keep around the house... Someones always borrowing or holding on to the dvd for weeks at a time to long... The casting was great.., I was entertained by the manner of associations in those days, Where the plantation owners wife & the doctor felt more commonality to read an novel whereas the slave quarters the generations had to co-exist...
