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Shadowboxer (DVD, 2006) 
Shadowboxer (DVD, 2006)

 
Shadowboxer (DVD, 2006)

Leading Role: Helen Mirren
Director: Lee Daniels
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Nov 2006
Format: DVD
UPC: 855280001533
Product ID: EPID55573647
Description: Hardboiled and at times incongruous, Lee Daniels's (MONSTER'S BALL) directorial debut sets out to smash stereotypes with a noirish crime thriller about loyalty, loss, love, and guilt. Cuba Gooding Jr. (MEN OF HONOR) and Helen Mirren (CAL...
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Hardboiled and at times incongruous, Lee Daniels's (MONSTER'S BALL) directorial debut sets out to smash stereotypes with a noirish crime thriller about loyalty, loss, love, and guilt. Cuba Gooding Jr. (MEN OF HONOR) and Helen Mirren (CALENDAR GIRLS) star as Mikey and Rose, a pair of contract killers. Once stepmother and son, they are now lovers as well as partners, and have decided to do one last job together before Rose leaves the business due to her terminal cancer. Brutal criminal Clayton (Stephen Dorff) has hired them to take care of members of his inner circle--including his pregnant wife, Vickie (Vanessa Ferlito, SPIDER MAN 2)--but when the pair goes to carry out the job, Vickie goes into labor and Rose suffers a crisis of conscience. Rose helps Vickie through the birth and adopts both mother and son, going into hiding and telling Clayton the job was done. The four briefly form a strange kind of family before illness, tragedy, and the past inevitably disturb their tenuous peace.


The chemistry between Mirren and Gooding is intense and unforced, forming just one aspect of this great cast that also includes Joseph Gordon Levitt (BRICK) as a doctor who ministers to the criminal element, and Mo'nique as his demanding girlfriend. The film's gorgeous cinematography offsets the high violence quotient, which begins with an early scene involving a pool cue that audiences aren't likely to forget. SHADOWBOXER is a film that interests by virtue of its unusual casting, fast-paced story, and well-shot look.

Credits
Producer:Tucker Tooley
Cast:Damon Dash, Helen Mirren, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mo'Nique, Ryan Sands, Stephen Dorff

Editorial Reviews
"As it gleefully smashes boundaries and blurs the line between comedy and melodrama, it dares you to lapse into laughter."
New York Times - Stephen Holden (07/21/2006)

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    Top Reviews
      2007 Best Actress Helen Mirren & Cuba Gooding, Jr. Star
    Review created: 05/21/07
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    The inseparable odd pair of contract killers Rose (Helen Mirren) & Mikey (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) cross boundary after boundary of US laws & ethics. That's what makes this movie so unique & intriguing. It's got quite an unusual plot!

    Since Rose is dying, she's going on her last contract kill(s) with Mikey, her stepson. Once on the job, with four of their men targets already shot dead, Mikey is surprised when Rose refuses to kill a very pregnant target who goes into labor at the sight of Rose & her gun aimed her way. Instead of killing the primary target, Rose successfully delivers her baby.

    Off the four, instead of two, go, into hiding. Sexual boundaries are crossed. Ethical boundaries are too. It's nearly comical that a once renowned hit woman spares another woman's & her newborn baby's lives. Rose has an alterior motive, though. That becomes apparent in the end.

    If I give you any more details I'll ruin the intrigue of the boundary crossings. So I'll leave it saying that I feel they are the most significant part of this well acted, directed, and scripted film. The title "Shadowboxer," is quite fitting.


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