A Man Named Pearl

Director: Scott Galloway; Brent Pierson
Actors: Pearl Fryar, Cecil Stokes
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Category: DVD

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 5 reviews
Sales Rank: 9458

Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 78 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: D136160D
UPC: 767685136164
EAN: 0767685136164
ASIN: B001CQS7LU

Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: November 25, 2008
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5 out of 5 stars Gardening Wizard    January 6, 2009
Joe Graphics (Memphis, TN)
Pearl Fryar is a topiary genius who is also a wonderful human being. The shapes he has molded his plants into in his South Carolina garden are fantastic and a joy to behold. This loving documentary shows what he does and how he does it. If you love gardening, you'll love this DVD.


5 out of 5 stars Excellent film    January 4, 2009
Dianne M. Papasan (Memphis, Tn)
A Man Named Pearl

This is an excellent film for young people and families. A story of a wonderful man and his garden. If you get an opportunity, go visit with Pearl in his garden. You'll never forget the trip.


5 out of 5 stars Laugh, cry, see it again    November 18, 2008
W. Harrington (Mount Pleasant, SC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I'll just say that in its 2 short runs in Charleston, SC, I saw it 4 times -- with my wife and with 2 twenty-somthings and then with an 86-year-old. Thumbs-up all around.

Have been anxiously awaiting the DVD release to share with as many friends and relatives as possible this Christmas.






5 out of 5 stars "A Man Named Pearl" Movie Trailer    October 27, 2008
Cecil Stokes (Charlotte, NC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Watch Video Here: http://www.tvboxset.com/review/R2L87UEX32QKWJ The movie trailer for "A Man Named Pearl"


4 out of 5 stars In Pearl Fryar's hands, everything grows    October 23, 2008
Jean E. Pouliot (Newburyport, MA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Pearl Fryar is an extraordinary man, self-made to be sure. The son of a sharecropper, he seemingly has an innate sense about the way plants grow, blessed with a keen, artistic mind. Combined, these talents have made him almost obsessed about turning his modest, 3-acre property in tiny Bishopville, South Carolina into a work of topiary art. Using cast-off plants from a local greenhouse, he creates and beautiful Eden in his backyard. The film is a paean to his efforts, his vision and his effect on his community.

There's a tendency to see Pearl as a sort of backwoods topiary savant. But listen to him speak to college art classes, and you will hear a articulate man who embodies the artistic impulse and inspires students to leave their sketchbooks behind and reach into their hearts. He may not have gained his knowledge from textbooks, but from Nature itself, the source of the textbooks. The film interviews Pearl, his wife and son, neighbors, his pastor and his many friends. The "best supporting actor" has to go to the head of the local Chamber of Commerce. Though his feet-on-the-desk, salesy manner might remind some of Uncle Kip in "Napoleon Dynamite," he sems truly appreciative of Pearl and his potential to bring a few more touirists into town.

Played as a fiction, "A Man Named Pearl" would have been set as a standard against-all-obstacles story. This film is not so craven as to invent huge villains for Pearl to overcome. The standard demons of lingering racial stratification, self-esteem, community doubt and the clock will have to do. A fine film that shows what human bengs are capable of when given the light, air and space to grow. Kind of like plants.