Ruby Bridges (1998)

Actors: Michael Beach (actor), Penelope Ann Miller (actress), Kevin Pollak (actor), Patrika Darbo (actress), Diana Scarwid (actress), Peggy Farrell (costume designer), Ralph Wilcox (actor), Paul LaMastra (editor), Ingrid Johanson (miscellaneous crew), Pamela Williamson (miscellaneous crew), Euzhan Palcy (director), Euzhan Palcy (producer), Lela Rochon (actress), Ryan Schaetzle (miscellaneous crew), Michelle Lee Brown (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, (and since all the white mothers pulled their children out of class, she was the only one there, period), and though she faced a crowd of angry white citizens every day, she emerged unscathed, physically or emotionally. Encouraged by her teacher, a white woman from the North named Barbara Henry, and her mother, Lucille, and with her own quiet strength, she eventually broke down a century-old barrier forever, a pivotal moment in the civil-rights movement.

Keywords: 1960s, african-american, based-on-true-story, brother-sister-relationship, character-name-in-title, child's-point-of-view, christian, civil-rights-movement, classroom, compassion
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Policeman: The governor of the great state of Louisiana says you can't enter.::Deputy U.S. Marshal Al Buffer: Thank you sir, but the president of the Untied States says I can.

Ruby Nell Bridges: [takes a ribbon out of her hair and wraps it around the neck of her doll and holds the ribbon up]

Mrs. Stein: I'm so sorry Abon, but will you please not come in here anymore.::Abon Bridges: Why?::Mrs. Stein: Please, please just go...::Abon Bridges: Ok fine I won't cone in here no more if that's how you want it. You remember who was first to come in here when you first moved here and them crackers wouldn't buy from some Jews. Ain't been nothing but nice to you but if that's how you want it that's how its gonna be.

Lucielle 'Lucy' Bridges: No mater what they say. You know god loves you and they don't know what they're talking about.

Lucielle 'Lucy' Bridges: What do you thing you're doing?::Abon Bridges: I'm doing what is best for our daughter. And watched her in there and I listened and I seen that she's got it in her head that white folk is better than black folk. She draws black folk deformed and white folk perfect.::Lucielle 'Lucy' Bridges: But what does that have to do with Jesus?::Abon Bridges: No body knows what he really looks like. And when she sees this everything that tells us that god looks more like the white folk outside her school than her.

Barbara Henry: This school was ordered to integrate. If you continue to separate Rudy then you're breaking the federal law! Shall we call superintendent Redman and discus it with him?

Dr. Robert Coles: Honey I saw you talking to them. Did you finally get angry with them? Did you tell them to just leave you alone?::Ruby Nell Bridges: No, I didn't tell them anything I didn't talk to them.::Dr. Robert Coles: I was there, I saw your lips movie::Ruby Nell Bridges: But I wasn't talking to them. I was praying for them::Dr. Robert Coles: Praying for them?::Ruby Nell Bridges: Yes, I pray for them everyday in the car. But I forgot that day.::Dr. Robert Coles: Oh. What prayer did you say?::Ruby Nell Bridges: Please god, forgive these people because even if they say those mean things they don't know what they're doing. So you can forgive them just like you did those folks along time ago when they said terrible things about you.

Miss Spencer: She is a good teacher, my kids can't read that well yet!

Ruby Nell Bridges: I think people are happier when they make friends, what do you think?::Dr. Robert Coles: I think you're a great teacher!

Minister: I'm just trying to take my daughter to school!::Crowd: Traitor! Traitor!