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JUANITA
March 8, 2019  | By David Bianculli

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

MOVIE PREMIERE: Alfre Woodard stars in the title role of this new Netflix movie, playing a woman who tires of her life as a taken-for-granted one-woman support system for her three grown children, her grandchildren and others. So this “giving tree” rips up her roots and heads impulsively to Montana, where she meets new people, gets a new job, and has intermittent fantasy conversations with her dream man, Blair Underwood. The part of Blair Underwood is played by Blair Underwood. And Alfre Woodard looks just as lively and luminous as she did when she co-starred in St. Elsewhere in the 1980s. I suspect a Dorian Gray pact, or some sort of trickery like The Shadow, where she’s actually been replaced by her own granddaughter… Regardless, this is a charming little character study.

 
 
 
 
 
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