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‘The Six Triple Eight’ Review: A Battalion of Black Women Make History in Tyler Perry’s Best Film Yet
Tyler Perry puts two decades of directing experience to work on a true story from World War 2 of women tasked with sorting through 17 million letters.
With “ The Six Triple Eight,” the self-made mogul — who leveraged his success to build a production studio on a former U.S. Army base outside Atlanta — has found a story ideally suited to his strengths and interests: how a courageous group of 855 women of color made history during World War 2, becoming the first such unit to serve overseas. The compelling true story marks a significant step forward for Perry, bolstered by the participation of Susan Sarandon and Oprah Winfrey, who appear in small but substantial roles as first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune. Once the 6888th are assigned to sort and deliver the mail, Adams must make do without formal orders or adequate resources (not even proper housing), obliging her to improvise how she’ll manage to process multiple warehouses full of more than 17 million letters (a dozen buildings that loom large as the soundstages at Tyler Perry Studios).
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