The Hollywood Review reviews the new film Loving, which dramatizes the case of Loving v. Virginia (1967). Richard and Mildred Loving challenged the Virginia statute which forbade interracial marriage, a case which eventually ended up in the U. S. Supreme Court and led to a landmark ruling that invalidated such laws. The new film stars Joel Egerton and Ruth Negga. The Loving case has been brought to the screen before--as a made for television movie, Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996), starring Timothy Hutton and Lela Rochon (a wonderful film, but hard to find on DVD--it may be embargoed), and as a 2011 documentary, The Loving Story, featuring Jane Alexander and directed by Nancy Buirski.
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