Blackout is Jerry LaMothe's ambitious attempt to try and craft a Do the Right Thing for the 21st century. He falls short of that impossible goal, but Blackout does have several things to recommend it.
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03/08/08
Blackout (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 3 Fresh: 1 Rotten:2 Average Rating: N/A
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Synopsis: 2003's historic New York City blackout forms the premise for this drama set in Brooklyn's East Flatbush, where looters and violence emerged as soon as the lights went out. [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Melvin Van Peebles, Jeffrey Wright
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Hopes to attach some larger social significance to the event, but that unfortunately falls largely flat and suffers from a derivative and sometimes vapid script.
06/22/07
there are some terribly cliched threads, including C.J.'s as the doomed upwardly mobile kid from the block, and James as the tormented witness of 9/11
12/18/07
A well-crafted, slice-of-life saga which amply illustrates how easily matters might go from bad to worse in the already-overburdened inner-city when disaster strikes in the 'hood.
04/14/08
Inner-city drama, written and directed by a Brooklyn native, and based on actual events which unfolded in a predominantly African-American section of Flatbush during the Great Blackout of 2003.
04/14/08
Actor Interview - Says co-star Jeffrey Wright: "Big film or small film, what I like to do is put myself in these places that feel genuine."
02/08/08
Jeffrey Wright
04/14/08
Drama revisits the looting and other actual events which unfolded in a predominantly African-American section of East Flatbush during the Great Blackout of 2003.
04/17/08
Zoe Saldana
04/28/08
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