Levity
How you gonna make it right?
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 4, 2017
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Mill Creek Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Kirsten Dunst & Holly Hunter | |
Performer: | Dorian Harewood & Catherine Colvey | |
Directed by | Ed Solomon | |
Edited by | Pietro Scalia | |
Screenwriting by | Ed Solomon | |
Produced by | Richard N. Gladstein, Adam J. Merims & Ed Solomon | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Deakins | |
Executive Production by | Morgan Freeman, Lori McCreary, Andrew Spaulding, James Burke & Doug Mankoff |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Worth seeing for the visuals and the performances, but as drama it's maddening.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3/4 --
Slow and satisfying.
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Denver Post
Rating: 3/5 --
An unrelentingly morose quest for redemption, one that leans too heavily on stock characters and tends to wander in odd directions.
Arizona Republic
Rating: 1 --
"Levity's complications, however, do not stick in your throat - they slumber in your stomach"
Bangitout.com
wish I could find some enthusiasm for this film, which was given a wonderfully austere look by the cinematographer Roger Deakins... For all its seriousness, though, Levity struck me as pretentious and intractably lifeless.
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Wall Street Journal
Rating: C+ --
The characters in the well-meaning drama resemble symbols rather than people, while the storyline seeks mighty truths that remain evasive.
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Dallas Morning News
Rating: 2.5/4 --
This meandering movie rises and falls depending on each individual storyline.
Creative Loafing
Product Description:
Billy Bob Thornton stars in LEVITY as Manual Jordan, an ex-con recently released from a 21-year jail sentence, who is seeking redemption from Adele Easley (Holly Hunter), the sister of the guy he murdered. His mild manner and passivity make him immune to the new freedoms he'll experience outside of jail, and so his release seems like more of a punishment than a reward. By a stroke of luck he meets a spiritual man (Morgan Freeman) who runs a soup kitchen and community center. He is given a job as a parking attendant for the nearby nightclub. This job is the catalyst that brings him in touch with a young girl, Sofia (Kirsten Dunst), whose difficult home life has turned her into a self-destructive wreck, wasting her life on booze and drugs. However, her faith is restored by Manual's gentle way of looking out for her. Little by little, Manual's goodness--the result of years of guilt spent reflecting on his crime in prison--casts a ray of new light on everyone involved, including the young and troubled son of Adele. The strong cast of director Ed Solomon's debut all turn in superb, understated performances and the snowy Chicago streets and moody acoustic soundtrack add a chilling gravity to the very moralistic, Christian plot of this genuine film.
Keywords:
Teenage
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Murder
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Prison
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Crime
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Christianity
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Guns
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Christian Values
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Christians
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