A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.
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- 2 wins & 14 nominations
Bonnie Mbuli
- Precious Chamusso
- (as Bonnie Henna)
Tumisho Masha
- Obadi
- (as Tumisho K. Masha)
Jay Anstey
- Katie Vos
- (as Jessica Anstey)
Eduan van Jaarsveldt
- Special Branch Sergeant
- (as Eduan van Jaarsveld)
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- TriviaRobyn Slovo, who is Shawn Slovo's sister, acts as her own mother, Ruth First, in the film.
- GoofsWhen Sixpence scores the winning goal and then gets surrounded by his team and fans; Coach Patrick lifts him up onto his shoulders. However, in the following cut Sixpence is now holding up a trophy. Hardly a second elapsed between cuts and there was no award ceremony in between nor did anyone push through the cheering crowd to bring him the trophy.
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As I started watching this movie, I thought Apartheid movies are like Holocaust movies---they are all the same theme repeated over and over again with minor variations. But something about this unfolding picture made me resist the eject button. One factor was, I think, that the Tim Robbins character was magnetically unpredictable. It was hard to predict what kind of a person he would ultimately turn out to be. Secondly, and maybe I missed something at the outset or went in with imperfect knowledge of the circumstances of the film, but only quite late in the picture did I realize that this was a biographical flashback of a national hero. That was refreshing to me. Heroic biopics generally seem to be trying too hard to lionize their subject. And finally, from all aspects of cinematography that a casual user like me can address, the picture was not that badly done. So, if you haven't seen many Apartheid-themed movies and would like to see a decent one, this would be a respectable choice. As a political aside, I found myself hoping that at least a few Americans would watch this picture and say "Hey, that's what we do to suspected terrorists, too!", and consider whether right and wrong are not all that easy to distinguish.
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- jtur88
- Feb 27, 2007
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- Hot Stuff
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- Budget
- $14,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,299,773
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,012,000
- Oct 29, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $5,710,236
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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