Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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A Man Named Pearl
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Oct 3, 2008 – Oct 9, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$9
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In 1976, when black factory worker Pearl Fryar moved to all-white Bishopville, South Carolina, his neighbors didn't disguise their trepidation: "Black people don't keep up their yards," he was told. Fryar resolved to prove them wrong by building a voluptuous topiary garden of abstract shapes that now garners national attention and funnels tourist dollars into his declining town. In A Man Named Pearl, the gardener in question proves as mild-mannered as the documentary itself, a quiet testament to the power of a living metaphor. Directors Scott Galloway and Brent Pierson show the good sense to preserve Fryar's words of intuition and faith as simply and lovingly as he delivers them.
