I saw this on my UA-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.
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.
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 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.
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 😢
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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 😊
My pops took the ‘sanitation engineer’ job in the 70’s. Didn’t even have a diploma. He’s now retired in the suburbs without a worry in the world. Freeman was too short sighted and didn’t understand the real world.
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.
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
Everybody can't afford to financially provide another person's dream. People don't realize people and families set their dreams aside to keep a roof over their head, not just so someone could live comfortably live out their life pursuing their dream.
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.
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...... 😊
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 !!!
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 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 🤦🏽♀️😔✨.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😢
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.
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).
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.
Then you're a dreaming bum, noone has to believe in you, believe in yourself and just do it, but you won't because you're lazy and your a sorry bum.. There I just added to the others that don't believe in your fake dreams..
Not for nothing, but WHY would you expect Someone else to believe in YOUR Dream?!? The Dream belongs to you as well as the work & determination to achieve it!
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
@@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.
@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!
@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!
@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!
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!
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 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...
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.
@@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...
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.
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."
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.
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 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.
@@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!
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. 😂
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.
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.
Freeman was just lazy . He had ideas but didn't have work ethic and wasn't responsible. He whipped his wife disrespected his father and living in his parents house with a pregnant wife
Just found this. Great story! Freeman was a man with little guidance & a big/hard head but he had gumption. In the end his spirit was broken because like so many men he had a dream but no direction. The abuse scene was so weird & forced. Rex though…..was an accomplished sellout. 😢
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...
He should have worked the job went to college part time to get his degree and ask his doctor friend did he know anybody that would train him to be a notary or paralegal
@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.
@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.
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.🤔
Dick Anthony Williams was underrated. He was can excellent actor.
Pretty tony
I agree!❤
Dick Anthony Williams is so much more !!! We need more actors like him...dignified, interesting, intelligent and handsome. Rest in Power 🙏🏾🙌🏾🤎
He was never underrated. He was an excellent character actor who always worked until his last days from cancer
He deserved bigger and better roles @@neilrichardson7454
This was fabulous! I have never known or heard a single thing about this masterpiece until an hour and a half ago.
FACTS!!!!!! 💯
Gratitude for sharing.
Uptight, Five on the Blackhand Side, The Learning Tree and J.Ds Revenge are classic films.
I've known sooo many Freemans! And, there are sooooo many in the world today.... It breaks my heart!
The sad part is that in 2024, we have the ability to better ourselves, yet we collectively still want to remain Freemans 😢
I saw this on my UA-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.
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.
I was sorry to see the story end.
Neither was the African continent. Knock it off. Blacks the world over were obsessed with non black shows😊
This movie that aired Sunday, October 9, 1977, was uploaded six days ago, and I have never heard of nor seen it till now!
Didn't see it in his filmography neither, this movie deserves more credit than it's been given for sure.
Fantastic post! Makes me sad that, among this brilliant cast of heavy-hitters, Chip is the only one still with us.
Chips Fields is also still alive
@@ReggieMosbyJr That’s literally what I JUST said above.
@@ReggieMosbyJr Isn't that Kim FIelds mother? They look just alike
@@Alma-999 Yes, Chip Fields is Kim Fields mom.
Wow. This is my first time every hearing of this movie. It came out the year I was born.
💯 never heard of it as well. Appreciate the upload.
It's a play not a movie
This a play, GREAT BLACK THEATER!
Born in 1977 too! 💪🏿
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 ❤
Why did you write that Freeman needed a reality check ?
@@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.
@@lenevee4925 : I need to apologize . I wrote that before I saw the entire play . Now I understand why you wrote that . Sorry .
@@beanbean321 No worries!
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 😢
This was the best Black 5 cast GREAT actors and actresses in one setting, with an amazing story line, I've ever seen.
This is such a wonderful movie I wish I had discovered it earlier.
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.
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.
@@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.
Wow. How bout that!
@@dree2295 Yep, he (Dick Anthony Williams ) was in that episode when Tom took lessons from George to "act black."😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣
...and that's the kitchen from Good Times😂😂😂
I really enjoyed this film 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Over the years I’ve Learned that **Humility** is Something Wonderful to have but Certainly Hard to Acquire 😔
This is art imitating life in our community. Now, Freeman isn't monogamous nor lives with the mother of his child.
Brilliant acting. Great actors and actresses.
I would definitely like to see these actors and actresses in more movies.
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!
We have communities of Freemans. Nothing's changed
This was really a great film, Thank You for uploading it.
Chips Fields is good actress. She should have gone further in the industry.
She actually did! She’s an amazing acting teacher & coach. Most actors that we enjoy watching today were taught by her.
Facts
Chip is a director, and producer.
@@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 😊
Unfortunately, Black actresses don't go far in the business
My pops took the ‘sanitation engineer’ job in the 70’s. Didn’t even have a diploma. He’s now retired in the suburbs without a worry in the world. Freeman was too short sighted and didn’t understand the real world.
Freeman reminds me of so many good brothers that couldn't bring it together. Not criminals, not bums, but couldn't bring it together.
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.
I love all of these actors ❤
First Time Seeing This ,Terrific Story So Many Layer's To It ,Dare I Say It Should Be Considered a Minor Classic.
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
Everybody can't afford to financially provide another person's dream. People don't realize people and families set their dreams aside to keep a roof over their head, not just so someone could live comfortably live out their life pursuing their dream.
Wow... Most of them did cameos on Good Times. Awesome... 🤩
Yes indeed! I still watch that show today❤
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.
Thank you thank you for posting this movie!! 🙏🏾
Great acting..$15k In 1977 is equivalent to $77k in 2024!!
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...... 😊
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.
They settled what were the other options Shakespeare, mark Anthony
He could play Wilt in a movie. RIP to the ancestor.
& George Gervin
I was just thinking about that! Williams could play Wilt or Dr. J.
Freeman talking all that ish, while he and his pregnant wife live in his parents house that they paid for.
She's right and his dad was wrong kick that sucker out and get on his own 2 feet
T to his was such a great movie with outstanding legendary actors. Loved it!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Every time Rex comes over he's bringing bad news!
Grandpa Evans and Lena !😅😅
They make a great acting duo.
That's what I said! Lol
@@LisaLisaCJ Chip Fields played Penny's abusive mom on Good Times.
LOL…yep!! That’s them.
Good times. Yesss
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.
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??
Wonderful! Thank you
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
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.
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.
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 !!!
Lou Gossett...❤😢 RIP
Fantastic teleplay. Freeman needed to be evaluated, though.
Outstanding.
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 💔✨.
While I generally agree, Freeman was extremely condescending & too prideful for his own good.
@@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 🤦🏽♀️😔✨.
A great story line. Excellent acting.
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.
Broad he had was weak
His WIFE was the WORST!!!
@@VChildress-td4qm VERY!!!! Toxic like a disease.
Preach 🙏
His family couldn't see beyond their own nose, Freeman can never succeed with a wife and family like this
NO vision
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.
you didn't see how NEGATIVE and IMMATURE his broad was? WOW...
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.
I really enjoyed this treasure
1:21:15. $75000 in 1977 is approximately $388360 in 2024
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. 😢
Brothers haven't improved much now either.
@@neilrichardson7454😢
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.
Like Donald Trump.
Pretty Tony!!!!
along with Henry,Lena and Penny's mama from Good Times.
Pretty Tony!
When you hear grown folks talking shut the Fék Up.-MACK
Guess that was the sequel, He became a pimp
😊❤wow didn't know about this good nice shared
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).
Freeman had delusions of grandeur and detached from reality. Sad but he did have a mental illness and needed mental health help
I am Freeman. I know how it feels to not have no one believe in your dreams and aspirations.
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.
No I'm freeman 🤬🤬🤬
@@kimberly8695 shut up 🤬🤬🤫🤫
Then you're a dreaming bum, noone has to believe in you, believe in yourself and just do it, but you won't because you're lazy and your a sorry bum..
There I just added to the others that don't believe in your fake dreams..
Not for nothing, but WHY would you expect Someone else to believe in YOUR Dream?!?
The Dream belongs to you as well as the work & determination to achieve it!
Excellent!❤
The GAME is still the same the PLAYERS is the the only thing that changed ❤they smile in your face backstabber.
He could have helped his friend on so many levels especially if his dad and mom help him dam parasite 🪱.
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.
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.
Man nobody helped. Especially his wife. @@NkrumahTure
This really shows how horrible black folks are towards each other
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.
The Jefferson's original maid, James Evans' long lost daddy, Penny's abusive momma, AND Fiddler all tried to talk some sense into that fool. 🤭
Wow that Reck Center could have employed the whole town, The so called Doctor stood on everyone else's shoulders.
Freeman was mentally and emotionally exhausting. I keep my distance and stay clear away from folks like him.
Damn, Rex was a horrible friend smh
Wow!!!! Great movie!!!!!
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.
@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.
@@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.
@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!
@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!
@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!
HOW COME I NEVER SEEN THIS SHOW...
It was shown during a time no one would be watching it. Or your parents or grandparents had better shows they wanted to watch 😢
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!
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...
Exactly ❤
@@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...
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.
@@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...
@@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.😜
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.
Was this a hit (at least in the Black community) when it came out because I’ve never heard of it before?
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."
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
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.
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
@@ninajefferson4018 He was the problem. End of story.
@@TalesForTheCulturehe sure was...I know so many brothas like him...their Egos are bigger than their dreams.
@@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.
@@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!
Very very touching
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. 😂
They all starred on good times except the son. Love chip❤❤❤
75,000 back then???? Rex was balling
Excellent movie. Excellent acting from a Black perspective.
The opening theme is smooth as F
Fantastic Movie
Great movie!
Amazing film
GREAT Casting !!!
Freeman was all over the place, too many bright ideas… not enough leg work/consistency. Man was acting like a 16 year old.
Good Movie 🎥 Made me feel a little Down! The Struggle is Real..
May you attain more subs. Your content are gems 😊
One of the most selfish things people can do in life is to expect everybody living in reality to support their dreams.
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.
Amen!
The woman in the pink night gown is Kim Fields (Facts of life,"Tootie" and Living Single, "Regine") mother
Black Excellence, right here
How so?
This looks like it premiered on PBS
That’s what I’m thinking as well. They still produce plays like this now at times.
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.
cause freeman is a piece of shit didn't we watch the same play
Freeman was just lazy . He had ideas but didn't have work ethic and wasn't responsible. He whipped his wife disrespected his father and living in his parents house with a pregnant wife
Wild
1:16:05 that's me every morning. 😔 a shell of my older self. No more challenges in life.
1ST. TIME SEEING THIS MOVIE. IT'S IS GOOD!!! THE STORY IS ORIGINAL L
Just found this. Great story! Freeman was a man with little guidance & a big/hard head but he had gumption. In the end his spirit was broken because like so many men he had a dream but no direction. The abuse scene was so weird & forced. Rex though…..was an accomplished sellout. 😢
Is see Norman leer really did steal this movie plot for good times. I herd that after he died and lied i see
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...
He looks very handsome
He should have worked the job went to college part time to get his degree and ask his doctor friend did he know anybody that would train him to be a notary or paralegal
That set looks like the Bunkers
He came down like im going fishin i aint going to tha stock yard
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was never your friend
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.💯
@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.
@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.
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.🤔
No one was hating on him....his damn EGO was bigger than his dreams....
@@TalesForTheCultureexactly
The daddy played his butt off in the movie the jerk
Yes, he did. He was also in the movie Mandingo.