Levity Movie Review 2003

Manuel Jordan (Thornton) has just been released from prison after serving 22 years of a life sentence for killing a clerk during a botched robbery. He returns to his neighborhood, looking for, but not expecting to find redemption. What he finds is a job working at a community center run by a fire-and-brimstone preacher, possible romance with the sister (Hunter) of his victim, her troubled son, and a self-destructive club kid, along with the wish to protect them all from contrived coincidences and overwrought sentimentality. Soloman was going for mood and atmospheric, and while it is moody (and crushingly boring), it's not very atmospheric. What it is is a complete waste of a talented cast.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 100 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Religion, Urban Drama, Ex-Cons, Second Chance

Screenplay

Edward Solomon

Cast

Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst, Dorian Harewood, Geoff Wigdor, Catherine Colvey, Manuel Aranguiz, Luke Robertson, Billoah Greene

Cinematography

Roger Deakins

Director

Edward Solomon

Music

Mark Oliver Everett

Other

Claude La Haye, Liza Richardson, Pietro Scalia, Pierre Perrault, Marie-Sylvie Deveau, Francois Seguin

Producer

Richard N. Gladstein, Adam Merims, Ed Solomon, Entitled Entertainment, Revelations Entertainment, FilmColony, Echo Lake Productions, Sony Pictures Classics