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GoodGoodWatch scoreSummary
Promises to Keep follows agitator Snyder and the Community for Creative Non-Violence by showing film-fragments, news-bulletin images from records, and newspaper headlines about the fight to force the government to live up to their promise to provide the homeless of Washington D.C. with proper shelter.
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Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 68GoodWatch 66
IMDb6.8
Running time
58 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −38 min on the typical 96
typical 9658Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Released
1988
January 1, 1988
38 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Academy Awards1989
- Documentary Feature Film1989Nominated
Directing · 1
- Ginny Durrin Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
Writing · 2
- Jim Byrne Screenplay
- Aviva Kempner Screenplay
Camera · 2
- Reuben Aaronson Director of Photography
- Richard Chisolm Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Marian Hunter Editor
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