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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 27, 2001
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eamonn Walker & Titus Welliver | |
Performer: | Laurence Fishburne, Annabella Sciorra, Gregory Hines, Dominic Chianese & Paul Calderon | |
Directed by | Laurence Fishburne | |
Edited by | Bill Pankow | |
Screenwriting by | Laurence Fishburne | |
Composition by | Branford Marsalis | |
Produced by | David L. Bushell, Laurence Fishburne & Helen Sugland | |
Director of Photography: | Richard Turner | |
Executive Production by | Larry Meistrich |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Deft and imaginative....In this handsome, graceful film, Fishburne has found the stuff of tragedy in an urban, streetwise melodrama...
Los Angeles Times
Despite some pacing missteps, this well-acted and colorfully photographed film is a gripping, gritty look at a hard-knock Life.
Full Review
E! Online
Rating: 2/5 --
Without a coherent story to hold our attention, the mood of somber, lower-depths desperation soon becomes monotonous.
New York Times
While the line-readings are often dead-on, Fishburne's movie suffers from the usual one-room claustrophobia and Mametian repetitions.
Village Voice
Rating: 2/4 --
It reeks of staged theater: three men in one room talking endlessly.
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Enough expertise has been lavished on this small film to make one almost forget that Once in the Life has been done more than once before.
Full Review
Film Journal International
Strictly for die-hard Fishburne fans, and even they might be getting awfully fidgety by the end.
New Times
Product Description:
In this crime drama directed by Laurence Fishburne and adapted from his own play, RIFF RAFF, a chance meeting changes the lives of two half brothers. One of the pair, 20-20 Mike (Fishburne), is a black man, a streetwise career criminal who claims to have eyes in the back of his head. His half brother, Billy (Titus Welliver), is a white strung-out purse snatcher who is desperate for a fix. Their plan to rob a local drug dealer ends in chaos and bloodshed, and they call on Mike's old friend, Tony "the Tiger" (Eamonn Walker), to help them get out of town. What they don't know is that Tony is now working for the same dealer they tried to rob, and as the three ponder their allegiance to each other, the tension mounts. ONCE IN THE LIFE is Fishburne's directorial debut, and his skill in guiding the already strong cast (which includes Annabella Sciorra and Gregory Hines) comes naturally. Despite the seedy, run-down locations and the overall grimness of the subject matter, Fishburne injects a lot of unexpected humor into the script. The film also has a few surprisingly tender moments between these men, who are running out of options but never give up fighting for their lives.
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- UPC: 031398761723
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