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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 17, 2001
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Samuel L. Jackson & Tamara Tunie | |
Performer: | Aunjanue Ellis, Colm Feore, Anthony Michael Hall, Ann Magnuson, Jay Rodan, Damir Andrei, Rodney Eastman, Peter MacNeill & Kate McNeil | |
Directed by | Kasi Lemmons | |
Edited by | Terilyn A. Shropshire | |
Screenwriting by | George Dawes Green | |
Composition by | Terence Blanchard | |
Produced by | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Elie Samaha & Andrew Stevens | |
Director of Photography: | Amelia Vincent |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Mr. Jackson does a superb job of conveying Romulus's fear....Ms. Lemmons does a thoughtful and potent job....[The film] is intriguing...
New York Times
Rating: 1/5 --
Really not much more than an urban Scooby Doo episode, only Shaggy is black and with far more facial hair.
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Film Threat
Nearly unwatchable ... but maybe next time.
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CNN.com
Rating: 2/4 --
Remember David Helfgott, the concert pianist who goes mad in Shine? Imagine him in dreadlocks and as the star of a detective thriller, and you have a better understanding of The Caveman's Valentine than the people who made it.
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Samuel L. Jackson is awesome...this movie isn't.
Supercala.com
...[Jackson gives a] moving performance....You're swept up, engulfed in Romulus's singular world...
Premiere
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Jackson's convincing portrayal of an untethered psyche scrambling for purchase on the slippery slope of sanity and Lemmons's arresting cinematic vision, in which we see the world through the eyes of a man continually descending into ...madness, is enough.
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Washington Post
Product Description:
Romulus Ledbetter (Samuel L. Jackson) is a schizophrenic homeless man who lives in a cave in a New York City park and believes that his nemesis is trying to control the world by projecting mind-control beams from the Chrysler Building. Romulus is also a Juilliard-trained pianist who retreated into a world of fantasy and paranoia when the stress of his professional and family lives became too much. When Romulus finds a young homeless man frozen to death outside his cave, the police write it off as an accident but Romulus investigates and discovers evidence of murder. While trying to reconcile with his policewoman daughter, Romulus sneakily investigates a trendy artist and his models for evidence of murder, blackmail, and more. Based on the novel by George Dawes Green, THE CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE is a unique trip into the disturbed but still highly intelligent mind of a character only Samuel L. Jackson could pull off. Director Kasi Lemmons, who previously directed Jackson in EVE'S BAYOU, takes us inside Romulus's mind using spectacular and jarring special effects, yet never letting the viewer forget the simple, human drama at the heart of the film. Offbeat and unique, THE CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE is a truly independent creation.