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The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (2009)

Movie"From the San Francisco Opera: "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin"
Audience Score
100
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
NR 2 hr 38 minApr 19th, 2009Music
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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.
DirectorFrancesca Zambello
WriterDuBose Heyward