Shadowboxer R
Feeling Protected Is Very Seductive
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 7, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Code Black Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vanessa Ferlito, Cuba Gooding Jr. & Helen Mirren | |
Performer: | Macy Gray, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mo'Nique, Stephen Dorff, Ryan Sands & Damon Dash | |
Directed by | Lee Daniels | |
Edited by | Brian A. Kates & William Chang Suk-Ping | |
Composition by | Mario Grigorov | |
Produced by | Tucker Tooley | |
Director of Photography: | M. David Mullen | |
Executive Production by | Brook Lenfest & Dawn Lenfest |
Entertainment Reviews:
The movie is bad, y'all. Like real bad. But, I still find a number of reasons to recommend it.
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Pajiba
Rating: 2/4 --
Gosh, it's almost too bad/good to be true.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 2.5/5 --
It tells a story that would fit perfectly in a standard Hollywood action thriller, but it tells it in the grammar and syntax of an art film. The two sensibilities make no sense together.
Arizona Republic
Rating: 4/5 --
That most wonderful of films, the kind that works on every level, but can't be easily pigeonholed.
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Killer Movie Reviews
Despite assembling a talented cast and crew, Daniels is stymied here by a script that takes itself far too seriously.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Thumbs down to a movie of such vile and violent temper.
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Toronto Star
Rating: 1/4 --
This cat-and-mouse caper's Swiss cheese plotline is riddled with too many holes to consider this flick as much more than a snuff film.
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Ban the N-Word
Product Description:
Hardboiled and at times incongruous, Lee Daniels's (MONSTER'S BALL) directorial debut sets out to smash stereotypes with a noirish crime thriller about loyalty, loss, love, and guilt. Cuba Gooding Jr. (MEN OF HONOR) and Helen Mirren (CALENDAR GIRLS) star as Mikey and Rose, a pair of contract killers. Once stepmother and son, they are now lovers as well as partners, and have decided to do one last job together before Rose leaves the business due to her terminal cancer. Brutal criminal Clayton (Stephen Dorff) has hired them to take care of members of his inner circle--including his pregnant wife, Vickie (Vanessa Ferlito, SPIDER MAN 2)--but when the pair goes to carry out the job, Vickie goes into labor and Rose suffers a crisis of conscience. Rose helps Vickie through the birth and adopts both mother and son, going into hiding and telling Clayton the job was done. The four briefly form a strange kind of family before illness, tragedy, and the past inevitably disturb their tenuous peace.
The chemistry between Mirren and Gooding is intense and unforced, forming just one aspect of this great cast that also includes Joseph Gordon Levitt (BRICK) as a doctor who ministers to the criminal element, and Mo'nique as his demanding girlfriend. The film's gorgeous cinematography offsets the high violence quotient, which begins with an early scene involving a pool cue that audiences aren't likely to forget. SHADOWBOXER is a film that interests by virtue of its unusual casting, fast-paced story, and well-shot look.
The chemistry between Mirren and Gooding is intense and unforced, forming just one aspect of this great cast that also includes Joseph Gordon Levitt (BRICK) as a doctor who ministers to the criminal element, and Mo'nique as his demanding girlfriend. The film's gorgeous cinematography offsets the high violence quotient, which begins with an early scene involving a pool cue that audiences aren't likely to forget. SHADOWBOXER is a film that interests by virtue of its unusual casting, fast-paced story, and well-shot look.
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- UPC: 855280001533
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