The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

From the San Francisco Opera: "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin

APPROPIATE

2009 / 158min.

Rating10

Genres

Music

Synopsis

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Directors

Actors

Angel Blue

Eric Owens

Laquita Mitchell

Lester Lynch

Chauncey Packer

Karen Slack

Alteouise DeVaughn

Eric Greene

Michael Bragg

Malesha Jessie

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