Reviews of AFI Festival Movies : SUNDAY

Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas .

‘King James Version’

U.S.A., 1987, 91 minutes , 7:45 p.m . Director Robert Gardner has two stories that never quite mesh in this film. Rachel, a strong-willed 12-year-old black girl, is the connecting tissue. In Harlem, she grapples with the embarrassment of a mother who’s a street-corner evangelist; in the South--visiting her grandmother--she sees how moral conviction can be turned into social action. It certainly works in its moments, but the broader picture remains an incomplete sketch.