Thunder Soul PG
He gave them everything. Now it's time to give back.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 31, 2012
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Mark Landsman | |
Edited by | Claire Didier | |
Narrated by | Jamie Foxx | |
Composition by | Conrad O. Johnson, Sr. | |
Director of Photography: | Sandra Chandler & Claire Didier | |
Executive Production by | Jamie Foxx & Jaime Rucker King | |
Hosted by | Conrad O. Johnson, Sr., Gwen Walker, Timothy Thompson, Gaila Mitchell, Craig Baldwin, Kirbyjon Caldwell, Gerald Calhoun, Craig Green, Bruce Middleton & Martha Samson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
There's a purity -- sense of righteousness and reunion and optimism -- that makes Thunder Soul galvanizing. Also, the music is smoking hot, which is pretty amazing, considering it comes from a high school band. And a bunch of oldsters.
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Detroit News
Rating: A --
...the unstoppable power of the music is an undeniable, stone groove
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
All of the agreeable ingredients are there, but director Mark Landsman doesn't coast on the built-in feel-good factor.
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Film.com
The emotion is high and the music is a joyful sound in THUNDER SOUL, a spirited tribute to the life-changing bond between a great teacher and his students...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Radiates warmth and energy from fun, kind people sharing love for each other and playing music together.
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RedEye
Thunder Soul reveals that fiction can never compete with the genuine emotions experienced in a true story well told.
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Easy Reader (California)
A precious scrap of American history.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Most fans of classic soul and funk don't spend much time listening to high school bands, but mention the Kashmere Stage Band and they'll sit up and take notice. In the 1970s, the jazz band at Houston, Texas' Kashmere High School was one of the best in the nation, and even scored regional hits with their recordings. Comprised of students from one of Houston's roughest neighborhoods, the Kashmere Stage Band was the brainchild of Conrad O. Johnson Sr., the school's band director who replaced the band's staid repertoire with a mix of lively jazz and funk tunes and current R&B favorites, and instilled a powerful work ethic in his students that turned the ensemble into an award winner. Johnson, known to his students as "Prof," transformed an otherwise ordinary band into something ground-breaking, and in the documentary THUNDER SOUL, filmmaker Mark Landsman offers a telling profile of Johnson and his band, featuring photos and footage of the band in their heyday as well as interviews from a recent reunion in which the Kashmere alumni paid tribute to Prof with their first concert in decades. THUNDER SOUL received its world premiere at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 51,804
- UPC: 031398148074
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