Academy Awards, USA 1999
| Nominated Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role Edward Norton |
New Line Cinema
Directed by Tony Kaye
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, New Line)
Edward Norton is a hate-spewing racist skinhead in southern California. One night he catches a group of black youths trying to steal his car and kills them all. In the state penitentiary, he is befriended by a black coworker in the laundry while rejected by the whites supposedly protecting him. Released after serving his sentence, he tries to save his younger brother from his same fate, but his old life catches up with him. Well-meaning but dramatically obvious, just try watching that early basketball scene with cringing, and I'm not so sure that this doesn't end up glorifying the kind of racism it is supposedly exposing.
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