Word: three
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sylvester Stallone locks himself in a room and comes out three days later with an Oscar-winning script. Hallelujah! The Screen Writers' Guild protests, insists he make Rockys II through...
...hand complicity of police and the justice system prevents Carter's release from prison in order to cover up police corruption in New Jersey. With dizzying rapidity, Jewison now whips up righteous lawyers who passionately rail against the judicial system as well as shady police officers who threaten the 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...
...reason as to why the ridiculously sinister Depalowski goes out of his way to persecute (and believe me, he really goes out of his way) a black boy out of all the black boys that are in his jurisdiction. Nor are we ever told the process by which the three Canadians (John Hannah, Deborah Unger, Live Schreiber) suddenly become best friends with Carter and decide to move to New Jersey (!) to fight for his release. And because so much of the movie centers round Carter and Carter alone, the other characters are left curiously two-dimensional, with no real reason...
...there is no transformation that Washington cannot effect in this movie. He has the deepest subtleties of acting to break your heart--such as his expression that seems to encapsulate all the injustice in this world when it is announced in the courtroom that he has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. He explodes with the rawest of emotions that makes you catch your breath, such as when he bangs his phone against the cell window telling his lawyer that he cannot stay in prison anymore. There is just nothing that this man does that does not speak straight...
Mary Jo Walker (Janet McTeer) is an energetic, itinerant Southern woman; she's been married three times, and when her relationships end, she simply packs up moves herself and her daughter elsewhere. Twelve-year-old Ava is less than thrilled when her mom plucks her from life in West Virginia and takes her across the country to Starlight Beach, Calif.; Ava wants a real home and stability, and for her mom to meet the right man and finally settle down. Mary Jo moves herself and Ava in with Jack (Gavin O'Connor), a seemingly nice trucker; Ava makes friends...