Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Pinky has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of Pinky (1949)
Review of Pinky (1949)
By Bosley Crowther (448) for New York Times (5,786) on 25 Mar 2006
Review of Pinky (1949)
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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000
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Pinky was released in 1949 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 41 reviews, giving Pinky (1949) an average rating of 71%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 85%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 63%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Pinky than critics were.
With a score of 71%, Pinky is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1949, which stands at 63%.
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