Stander Movie Review 2003

Set in 1976 in South Africa, the volatile antihero of the title (played with bravado by Jane) is the youngest police captain in Johannesburg and is in charge of the riot patrol during a Soweto protest march that quickly turns violent. Guilt-stricken after killing an unarmed black youth, Andre Stander realizes that the police are so busy enforcing apartheid that a white criminal can get away with anything. To test his theory, he robs a bank, and then another bank, and then more. Eventually arrested, Stander, along with mates McCall (Fletcher) and Heyl (O'Hara), breaks out of prison and goes on another bank-robbing spree and into the annals of folk hero notoriety. Loosely based on a true story.

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 DVD
Running time 111 minutes.
Originally from British, Canadian, South African, German.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Crime Drama, Crime Sprees, True Crime, Rogue Cops, Biopics: Cops & Robbers, Period Piece: 1980s, Africa, Heists: Banks, Period Piece: 1970s

Screenplay

Bronwen Hughes, Bima Stagg

Cast

Thomas Jane, Dexter Fletcher, Deborah Kara Unger, Marius Weyers, David Patrick O'Hara, Ashley Taylor

Cinematography

Jess Hall

Director

Bronwen Hughes

Music

David Holmes, Steve Hilton

Other

Nico Louw, Robert Ivison, Emelia Weavind, Darion Hing, Lester Cohen

Producer

Marty Katz, Julia Verdin, Chris Roland, ApolloProMedia, Grosvenor Park, Seven Arts Pictures, Newmarket Films