

“Some people build fences to keep people out, and other people build fences to keep people in.”
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
Director
Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$24,000,000
Revenue
$64,400,000

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.


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Denzel Washington on making Fences
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