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Cousin Bobby
UNITED STATES · 1992

Cousin Bobby

Jonathan Demme
religious leadership civil rights community activism urban ministry family portrait
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Synopsis

Robert Castle is the idealistic pastor of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem, and also the cousin of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Demme's affectionate portrait of his cousin traces Castle's story, beginning with his first parish assignment, in New Jersey in the early 1960s, in an increasingly African-American-populated neighborhood rocked by violence and civil rights protests. The film raises inti

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