A Patch of Blue (1965)
Directed by Guy Green
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
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The filmmakers are so careful about dodging the snares and assumptions of a template for interracial drama that goes back to “A Patch of Blue” (1965, and Sidney Poitier again, because who else?) that they risk rendering their movie inert.
It recalls movies like “Driving Miss Daisy” or “A Patch of Blue,” cloying stories about white folks who need their hand held by a kindly black person to come through the other side of racism (2011’s “The Help” also followed this playbook).