“I believe that my life has had more than a few wonderful, indescribable turns,” the legendary Sidney Poitier states at the beginning of Reginald Hudlin’s documentary on his life, career, and accomplishments, Sidney. For anyone who knows of Poitier’s work, this seems like an understatement, and a fact that one probably knows if they’re familiar with Poitier.
From the very beginning of Poitier’s acting career, he shows integrity in the roles he chose and faithfulness to his values. Despite having to work as a dishwasher while acting in his earliest films, Poitier refused to do films that didn’t uphold beliefs he felt he should show on the screen. But after his breakthrough role in 1955’s Blackboard Jungle, Poitier’s star seemed to rise with no end in sight, becoming one of the most important actors of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Sidney’s lineup of interview subjects is also quite impressive, as Poitier’s family is questioned about his relationships and what his career meant to him at the time, while Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Lenny Kravitz, and Halle Berry all remark on his he paved the way forward. In one particularly moving moment near the end of the film, Winfrey bursts into tears simply because Poitier means so much to her.
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