Word: goode
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really a boxing movie. Not even a good movie. We were tired...
...years ago, Miramax made the brilliantly subversive decision to release Scream on Dec. 12. While analysts proclaimed the move "ignorant," good ol' Harvey Weinstein knew exactly what he was doing. Good cheer at Christmas masks the craving for blood, guts and sex-anything, anything to get us away from the umpteenth group singing of "Silent Night." Scream rocked the box office and Scream 2 opened in the same slot the next year to $39 million. Should have been a trend-o-rama, right? Nope. We're back to "Good for You" fare. Just look at this year's slate...
...Anna and the King-imperialism and Ms. Oscar-bait herself starring in a self-proclaimed epic about the "East meeting the West." Sure, the story is recycled, but who cares-it's good for you! The Hurricane tells the also "epic" tale of a boxer's struggle to battle racism and the justice system after being wrongly convicted of murder. Gag. There's more-Bicentennial Man's story of a "robot journeying to be a real man," Ride with the Devil's Civil War extravaganza, The Cider House Rules' lovey-dovey schmaltz, etc. Add in last week's Green Mile...
When the movie begins, it is America in the 1960's, and the ugly realities of racial politics are flaring up all over again. Rubin Carter, played by Denzel Washington, is a poor black boy made good as a professional boxer, "Hurricane" Carter. As a street urchin growing up in racist New Jersey, he defends a friend against a white pedophile and is unjustly sent to a correction home by a sinister police officer, Depalowski (Dan Hedaya). Escaping from the home, he makes it good as an army officer until Depalowski, hell-bent on persecuting Carter, sends him back...
...three Canadians who decide to rally to Carter's cause. And as if we weren't more than inundated with inspirational themes, we even have a parallel story of another poor black boy Lesra Martin (Vicellous Shannon) who also has to overcome hardships of race, and who becomes a good friend of Carter after reading his book...