http://movies.tvguide.com/native-son/107260?rss=object The latest on Native Son TV Guide RSS Publishing Engine V 1.0 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 1440 http://www.tvguide.com/images/tvg_rss_logo.gif http://movies.tvguide.com/native-son/107260?rss=object http://video.tvguide.com/ID/820080?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/820080?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/011/000478_D2s_1ZdJI_s.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Native Son" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Previously filmed in Argentina in 1951, black author Richard Wright's powerful race-conscious novel Native Son was remade in this barely released 1986 version. The story involves Bigger Thomas (Victor Thomas), an angry Depression-era Chicago black who hopes to elevate himself through his chauffeur's job with a prosperous white Gold Coast family. The family's daughter (Elizabeth McGovern) takes advantage of Bigger's servile status by ordering him to drive her to a rendezvous with her communist-activist lover (Matt Dillon). Their parlor liberal attitude both pleases and confuses Bigger, as do the girl's apparent sexual advance towards him. One evening, Bigger drives the girl home after she's gotten herself drunk. She flirts harmlessly with him in her bedroom; when her blind mother (Carroll Baker) stumbles onto the scene, the terrified Bigger, certain that he'll be accused of rape, tries to muffle the girl so she can't talk. He accidentally kills her, whereupon the panicky Bigger hides the body and tries to pin</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/820080?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:00:15 -0400 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/820080?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/011/000478_D2s_1ZdJI_s.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Native Son" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Previously filmed in Argentina in 1951, black author Richard Wright's powerful race-conscious novel Native Son was remade in this barely released 1986 version. The story involves Bigger Thomas (Victor Thomas), an angry Depression-era Chicago black who hopes to elevate himself through his chauffeur's job with a prosperous white Gold Coast family. The family's daughter (Elizabeth McGovern) takes advantage of Bigger's servile status by ordering him to drive her to a rendezvous with her communist-activist lover (Matt Dillon). Their parlor liberal attitude both pleases and confuses Bigger, as do the girl's apparent sexual advance towards him. One evening, Bigger drives the girl home after she's gotten herself drunk. She flirts harmlessly with him in her bedroom; when her blind mother (Carroll Baker) stumbles onto the scene, the terrified Bigger, certain that he'll be accused of rape, tries to muffle the girl so she can't talk. He accidentally kills her, whereupon the panicky Bigger hides the body and tries to pin</p> Native Son