Losing Ground

Losing Ground

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  • Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Kathleen Collins
  • Cast(s): Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Billie Allen See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 26min
  • Music: Michael Minard
  • Award(s): National Film Registry 2020 (Won) Awards List
  • Similar To: Eternity, People We Meet on Vacation
  • Story:
    A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. When the wife goes off on an almost unbelievable journey to find "ecstasy", her husband is forced to see her in a different light.
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STORY

Story
A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. When the wife goes off on an almost unbelievable journey to find "ecstasy", her husband is forced to see her in a different light.

AWARDS

Won
National Film Registry Award

National Film Preservation Board | 2020

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The film never received distribution outside of festival screenings in director Kathleen Collins's lifetime. It was only decades after she died, that her daughter, who had inherited the negatives of the film, approached Milestone Films, and asked them to help restore and release the film.

Both Bill Gunn (Victor) & Seret Scott (Sarah) played on episodes of Bill Cosby shows. Gunn was on The Cosby Show (1984), and Seret, Cosby (1996).

In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

This film has a 100% rating based on 16 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Popular Dialogues

"Sara Rogers: Don't take your dick out like it's artistic - like it's some goddamn paintbrush!"

"Mother: I always knew you would try hard not to be a failure. Victor Rogers: Oh, you're concerned about that? Mother: Oh, I've thought about it. Not with any blame of course. I wouldn't blame you for being a failure. I'm not white."