Friday, April 11, 2014

Fruitvale Station 2013


Fruitvale Station


      This film is based on the true story of Oscar Grant.  He was a 22-year-old who was out celebrating the end of December 2008.  His mother asked him to take the BART because she didn’t want him out driving if he had something to drink that night.  He’s recently lost his job and he’s thinking about how to turn his life around.  He’s deciding about resolutions for the New Year.  How can he be a better son, boyfriend, father and stop lying all the time?  During the ride home on the BART, he is provoked into a fight with a man confronting him.  Police officers were called to sort out the people and the episode.
     I liked the main focus of this film is more about the life of Oscar Grant rather than how he died.  He had his good side and his bad side just like everyone else but it was sad for him and his family that his life was cut short.  3 ½* (I liked this movie) 
 
85 min, Biography directed by Ryan Coogler with Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Ahna O’Reilly, Ariana Neal, Keenan Coogler, Trestin George, Joey Oglesby.

Note:  Imdb 7.5 out of 10, 94% critic 88% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 4*.

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