Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come (Film & Soundtrack Special Edition) (DVD + CD) R
With a Piece in His Hand He Takes on the Man!
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 22, 2006
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Xenon
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jimmy Cliff | |
Performer: | Ras Daniel Hartman, Toots & the Maytals, Janet Barkley, Basil Keane & Carl Bradshaw | |
Directed by | Perry Henzell | |
Edited by | Seicland Anderson, Richard White & John Victor Smith | |
Music by | Toots & the Maytals & Jimmy Cliff | |
Screenwriting by | Perry Henzell & Trevor Rhone | |
Produced by | Perry Henzell | |
Director of Photography: | Frank St. Juste, David McDonald & Peter Jessop |
Entertainment Reviews:
The definitive postcolonial cult-movie musical.
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Village Voice
The Harder They Come for all its populist appeal, though, forces the audience to confront our idea of respectability politics and the value of art in a Caribbean society.
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Stabroek News
Rating: 5/5 --
The Harder They Come is a landmark work of cinema, a film that helped expand understanding about a corner of the world often ignored.
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FanboyNation.com
...Movie aficionados appreciate it as the definition of tuffer-than-tuff gangster cool...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
A rough, raw and realistic work that became a box office sensation in its homeland and a cult favorite stateside.
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Film Frenzy
Rating: 2/5 --
Atrocious acting, amateurish camerawork and a hackneyed story line all make for one painful slog.
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Time Out
[The film] also works as a scathing attack on police corruption, organised religion and the reggae industry.
Mojo
Product Description:
Reggae music serves as both soundtrack and plot element in THE HARDER THEY COME, a groundbreaking classic starring music legend Jimmy Cliff. Such hits as "You Can Get It If You Really Want," "Many Rivers to Cross," and "Sitting in Limbo," punctuate the film's action, introducing reggae and its Jamaican roots to a worldwide audience. Here, Cliff plays Ivan Martin, a poor country boy who goes to the city to make money, becoming a street rebel and a pop idol overnight. In Kingston, Ivan finds nothing but corruption. The record company offers him a mere $20 to release his single, "The Harder They Come." Ivan takes to the streets, where he is ensnared by crime. After brutally knifing a man, he serves a prison sentence. Once free, he supports himself by selling marijuana, protecting himself from legal persecution by giving the cops a cut. But that doesn't keep him from getting mixed up in a police raid. Ivan quickly develops a reputation as a Kingston criminal, and when his single "The Harder They Come" is finally released, it fuels his bad-boy notoriety, culminating in a tragic conclusion. Perry Henzel's 1973 film has become a cult classic and was an important factor in bringing reggae music to the fore. The movie served as a device for promoting Cliff's album and bringing him visibility as a primary Jamaican artist, on a par with Bob Marley.
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- UPC: 000799432204
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