Bopha!
Directed by Morgan Freeman, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard, Malcolm Mcdowell, Marius Weyers.

Freeman makes his directing debut with this fact-based fiction set in a South African township about the challenges faced by a black police officer and his family when they learn that the son opposes the system upheld by the father. Bopha is a Zulu word meaning “to arrest or to detain.” It is also a cry of protest.

This article appears in October 22 • 1993 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.