Beloved est un film de 1998 adapté du roman film éponyme de Toni Morrison qui a eu le Prix Pulitzer (récompensant le meilleur roman aux USA) en 1987. Il a été réalisé par Jonathan Demme, et produit par Harpo Productions (Oprah Winfrey). Les vedettes du film sont Oprah Winfrey et Danny Glover.

Après la geurre de sécession aux USA, une ancienne esclave, Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), rencontre Paul D. (Danny Glover) qui vivait dans la même plantation qu’elle.

The story, set shortly after the Civil War, revolves around Sethe, a former slave living on the outskirts of Cincinnati. When the film begins, an angry poltergeist is terrorizing Sethe and her three children. After Sethe temporarily soothes the angry spirit, her two sons run away from home, never to return.
Ten years later, Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), who by this time lives alone with her daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise), runs into Paul D. (Danny Glover), an old friend from Sweet Home, the plantation Sethe escaped from many years earlier. Paul D. then proposes to Sethe that he should stay and they could « build a life. »

Beloved is a 1998 film based on Toni Morrison’s eponymous Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1987 novel. It was directed by Jonathan Demme, and was produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. The film stars Winfrey and Danny Glover.