Skin PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 28, 2019
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: MPI Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill & Alice Krige | |
Performer: | Tony Kgoroge, Ella Ramangwane, Jeremy Crutchley & Jonathan Pienaar | |
Directed by | Anthony Fabian | |
Screenplay by | Helen Crawley, Jessie Keyt & Helena Kriel | |
Composition by | Hélène Muddiman | |
Director of Photography: | Dewald Aukema & Jonathan Partridge |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Skin is the amazing story of a man who went to extreme measures to change, on the outside and within his heart.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Jamie Bell's tough performance carries this forthright, earnest, if limited drama...
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Guardian
Rating: 4/5 --
The film is slightly longer than it needs to be, but it offers an authentic, thought-provoking story about redemption and forgiveness.
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Radio Times
Skin is still a surprisingly entertaining look at the humanity behind one hater.
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Jerusalem Post
Rating: 3/5 --
Bell is magnetic in the role, and there's real chemistry between him and Macdonald, but the film's formal glossiness and frequent overhead shots create distance between the viewer and the hate crimes on display.
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Observer (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
The actor does his best with a threadbare character.
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Times (UK)
[Seems] after awhile to take on an allegorical quality, analogous to America's agonies in trying to erase our country's own disfiguring racist heritage. Let's hope we can someday come out as unblemished as Widner's face.
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Phoenix Magazine
Product Description:
A dark-skinned girl born to white South African parents attempts to explore her identity in the era of apartheid as her government, her parents, and society as a whole struggle with what it means to be a black child of Caucasian descent in a nation deeply divided by race. The year is 1955. Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo) has just been born to a pair of white Afrikaner parents, her brown skin and curly hair the surprising result of genetic throwback. As the government's rigid apartheid system struggles with whether to classify Sandra as white or black, the young girl and her parents gradually realize that the complications they face due to her appearance run deep and wide. Sandra lives in a society where the color of your skin determines the outcome of your life, and though she is eventually granted admission to an all-white school, she suffers endless torment from her intolerant classmates. Her father, Abraham (Sam Neill), is having a particularly difficult time accepting his daughter. Despite the fact that tests indicate he is her biological father, the neighbors constantly whisper behind their backs. And while Sandra's mother (Alice Krige) does her best to provide her daughter with understanding and emotional support, those consolations come at a high price for both mother and daughter. Her parents believe it's their daughter's birthright that she live as a white woman, though only after she grows up and falls in love with a black man will the conflicted Sandra finally find the strength to embrace her true identity as an African woman.
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- Sales Rank: 106,987
- UPC: 030306707099
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