- Actors: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee, Raye Dowell
- Directors: Spike Lee
- Writers: Spike Lee
- Producers: Spike Lee, Pamm R. Jackson
- Classification: 18
- Run Time: 84 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00008T28G
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 39,675 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is Spike Lee's first feature film and it is excellent. The production is shoe-string cheap, but the homemade feel to it works perfectly with the story he wants to tell. That story is about Nola, who is being sought after by three very different men and one woman, each of whom wants Nola as their possession. The style is mock-documentary, in a sense. Characters often turn and address the camera and seem to be recalling events and experiences. Other times, the action is in the present and the style is simply a shot scene. The film revolves largely around the rivalry between the three men and Nola's increasingly strenuous efforts not to become caged. The rivalry between the men and the woman is not as fully developed, except between one of the men and the woman. It's all very good, wildly funny at times (Spike Lee plays one of the three men and he has a terrific comic ability), and thoughtful. There are sex scenes and one scene that even the film describes as a rape. Not nice, and I think it could have been intimated, rather than portrayed. However, it is not gratuitous. It is important to see it as an act that one specific character commits.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Spike Lee
Early days.
I wonder who the film is aimed at, never the less the story is funny and sweet.
Best scene in central park with the dancers
Well I think it is central Park.
Any spike Lee fan you must get this for your collection.
If your not a fan ? well you have read all these reviews just purchase.
Whats a few £s for a very good film.
I have seen one or two jokers (on the high street) charging over inflated prices for this.
Buy now.
Early days.
I wonder who the film is aimed at, never the less the story is funny and sweet.
Best scene in central park with the dancers
Well I think it is central Park.
Any spike Lee fan you must get this for your collection.
If your not a fan ? well you have read all these reviews just purchase.
Whats a few £s for a very good film.
I have seen one or two jokers (on the high street) charging over inflated prices for this.
Buy now.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Having read the previous reviewers thoughts, I think I read more into them than was there. I have to agree with
"eyes" who wrote "the product came on time and in good condition". That is as good as it gets with this awful piece of cinematography.
The only thing the makers got right was to select Tracy Camila Johns as the lead, not a great actress but a very beautiful lady.
The semi documentary style failed, the characters talking to the audience failed, (except when one character interrupted another, funny.),the acting failed, the frequent pictures of door numbers, window frames, brickwork, bridge struts, etc; etc: failed. The French did that better years ago.
Nothing linked together to get the viewer into the film. It is just a cluster of scenes that started at nowhere, goes nowhere, and yes, you've guessed it....... Being in black & white didn't help.
To me, it was how an amateur would put together their 16mm film of a trip to a city, with a few faces included.
Should you do purchase this, good luck.
"eyes" who wrote "the product came on time and in good condition". That is as good as it gets with this awful piece of cinematography.
The only thing the makers got right was to select Tracy Camila Johns as the lead, not a great actress but a very beautiful lady.
The semi documentary style failed, the characters talking to the audience failed, (except when one character interrupted another, funny.),the acting failed, the frequent pictures of door numbers, window frames, brickwork, bridge struts, etc; etc: failed. The French did that better years ago.
Nothing linked together to get the viewer into the film. It is just a cluster of scenes that started at nowhere, goes nowhere, and yes, you've guessed it....... Being in black & white didn't help.
To me, it was how an amateur would put together their 16mm film of a trip to a city, with a few faces included.
Should you do purchase this, good luck.
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