Amazing Grace

– Amazing Grace is a 1974 light comedy featuring black comedienne Moms Mabley as a widow who tries to ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
5.90 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 39 Minutes
Release Year:
1974
Amazing Grace (1974)

Amazing Grace is a 1974 light comedy featuring black comedienne Moms Mabley as a widow who tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts. Mabley appeared in the film, along with veteran actors Butterfly McQueen and Stepin Fetchit, only a year before her death at the age of 81. The film does not deal with the popular Christian hymn (with words by John Newton) but is a play on Mabley's character, who happens to be named Grace. It has been released on home video.

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Producing Country:
USA
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Amazing Grace (1974) - Trailer

Release Date:

30 Aug 1974

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
G – General Audiences

All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.

Director:

Stan Lathan

Writer:

Matt Robinson

Main Actors:

Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Rosalind Cash, Moses Gunn

Plot:

An elderly woman in a Baltimore neighborhood finds out that a somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being put up for local office by some shady politicians who have no interest in their neighborhood but are interested in getting their hands on the money that comes into it. She gets some neighborhood people together and together they plan to thwart the politicians' schemes.

Production:

United Artists

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.0/10