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*Paramount will give an awards season push to its adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fences.” The film, directed by, and starring Denzel Washington opposite Viola Davis, will ...

Fences is a type of film I sometimes find annoying. It’s a powerful award-winning play by August Wilson. Normally I would say I would rather see a play on stage than have it transposed to film.

When August Wilson's widow first toured the set for the new movie based on his play "Fences," she carefully examined the modest two-story brick house, the small yard and the tree where a ball hung ...