Miss Evers' Boys Movie Review 1997

Wrenching docudrama covers a 40-year U.S. Public Health Service study in which black men suffering from syphillis were monitored but not treated for the disease. Eunice Evers (Woodard) is a nurse at Alabama's Tuskegee Hospital in 1932, assisting Dr. Brodus (Morton) in the care of the afflicted men. White Dr. Douglas (Sheffer) first has a funded government program for treatment but when the program is cut, he's offered funding only for the study of syphilitic black men and establishing whether the disease affects blacks and whites differently. Brodus and Evers both lie to their patients as each comes to realize that treatment will never be re-established and only the deaths of their patients will provide the final information for the study. Based on the play by David Feldshuh.

Distribution

HBO, 1100 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, Phone: (212)512-7400, Fax: (212)512-7498, URL: http://www.hbo.com, Remarks: Online sales through www.store.hbo.com

Available on VHS
Running time 120 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Docudrama, African America, True Stories, Doctors & Nurses, Disease of the Week, Adapted from a Play, Hospitals & Medicine, American South

Screenplay

Walter Bernstein

Cast

Alfre Woodard, Laurence "Larry" Fishburne, Joe Morton, Craig Sheffer, Obba Babatunde, Ossie Davis, E.G. Marshall

Cinematography

Donald M. Morgan

Director

Joseph Sargent

Music

Charles Bernstein

Producer

Derek Kavanagh, Kip Konwiser, Robert Benedetti, Laurence Fishburne, HBO, Anasazi Productions