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Just watched "For the Love of Ivy"


I'd post on that board, but I can't find it. Good grief, that movie is awful. It didn't even make sense. This maid supposedly "loves" this family, but they act like they own her. They blackmail Poitier into dating her, and naturally, she falls in love with him. But the casual racism of the family is so thick you can cut it with a chainsaw. And everyone treats that poor woman as if she doesn't have anything to say that's worth listening to.

Finally Poitier seems to get it, but even then he tells her what he wants her to do, and she acquiesces. What a mess. And it's from a story by -- you guessed it -- Sidney Poitier.

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