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The Brewster joke
The Women of Brewster Place is a good book but then when you go to see the movie they made on the book you see the movie is a joke. In the book Mattie the main character has a rough time dealing with the baby until she met this one special person named MIss Eva who takes them under her wing. In the book Miss Eva is viewed as a loving caring friend that wants to help Mattie and the baby but in the jokeful movie Miss Eva doesn't give any real likingness to Mattie which destroys everything the book had said. Each character in the movie did a poor job in bringing the book's characters to life. the Depth of the book did not come out in the movie which to me made it a complete and total joke.

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Now you done made me mad
I remember watching this made for TV movie a few years ago. However I was disappointed with the DVD. You can actually see where it was sliced and diced.
Some parts in particular: Oprah finds Ms. Eva to be "asleep" after Ms. Eva did not pick up the kids after school. Oprah returns to the house with the kids. She calls out Ms. Eva name several times. Once Oprah touches her, she realizes that Ms. Eva has passed.
Then there were obvious cuts where there was nothing but a blank screen. Another cut scene: Basil was in jail and Oprah came to visit. "Basil don't you want to sit and talk for a spell? No mama, unless you came to bail me out I have nothing to say", or something to that effect.
This was a hard to find DVD and I was thoroughly disappointed by it. It would have been nice to view the movie in its entirety but I didn't get that.

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The movie in comparison to the book
In the book "Women of Brewster Place" the auther gives the image of a young man named Butch Fuller. The auther explains this character in a way that shows why Mattie is attracted to him. You see that it is merely a physical attraction to Butch and the way he presents himself because her family thinks of Butch as a "Low-down ditch dog." In the movie it is very hard to undertand Matties attraction because Butch does not present himself in a manner at all resembling the character in the book. He seems to present himself more like a "Low-down ditch dog."