Antwone Fisher (2002)

Regisseur:

Denzel Washington

Drehbuchautor (WGA):

Antwone Fisher (written by)

Premierendatum:

10. Januar 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Biographie | Drama | Romanze

Werbezeile:

Inspired by a true story.

Plot:

Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.

Plot Keywords:

Mother Son Reunion | Child Abandonment | Navy | Autobiographical | Black Independent Film

Filmpreise:

14 wins & 17 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

A True Familial Drama

Besetzung

Derek Luke	...	Antwone Quenton 'Fish' Fisher
Malcolm David Kelley	...	Antwone Fisher Age 7
Cory Hodges	...	Antwone Fisher Age 14
Denzel Washington	...	Dr. Jerome Davenport
Joy Bryant	...	Cheryl Smolley
Salli Richardson	...	Berta Davenport
Leonard Earl Howze	...	Pork Chop
Kente Scott	...	Kansas City (as Kenté Scott)
Kevin Connolly	...	Slim
Rainoldo Gooding	...	Grayson
Novella Nelson	...	Mrs. Tate
Stephen Snedden	...	Berkley
Leo Nepomuceno	...	SP #1
Sung Kang	...	Receptionist
Cordell Stokes	...	Keith Age 5

Alternativ:

Finding Fish (USA) (working title)
Fish (USA) (original script title)
The Antwone Fisher Story (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence, language and mature thematic material involving child abuse.

Länge:

120 Min | Canada:117 Min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Japanisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Brazil:12 | Malaysia:U | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Denmark:11 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:6 (w) | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Singapore:PG | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39019) | Iceland:12

Drehorte:

Cabrillo National Monument, Point Loma, San Diego, California, USA

Firma:

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Dies und das:

Antwone Fisher was working as a security guard at Sony Studios. Studio executives began hearing about his life story and offered to buy the rights. But Fisher refused insisting that he write the screenplay himself. Fisher wrote 41 drafts until he sold it to Fox.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: When Antwone shows the plane tickets to his girlfriend, they are clearly American Airline tickets. Yet when their plane is shown touching down in Cleveland, the colors of the plane are not those of American Airlines.

Dialogzitate:

Antwone Fisher: It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in The Making of 'Antwone Fisher' (2001) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Laguna Sunrise

A True Familial Drama

The violent and rebel twenty-five years old sailor Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke) is sent to three sessions for evaluation with the navy psychiatrist Dr. Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington), after another outburst and aggression against a superior ranked navy man. Reluctant in the beginning of the treatment, he gets confidence in Dr. Davenport and discloses his childhood, revealing painful traumas generated in his foster house. Meanwhile, he meets Cheryl Smolley (Joy Briant), and they fall in love for each other. Resolving his personal problems, Antwone becomes a new man. This true familial drama is a touching and positive story of a man who finds a friend and is sent back to a regular life. The direction of Denzel Washington is excellent, making sensitive, attractive and with good taste, a story about child abuse. In the hands of another director, it might be a very heavy story. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): 'Voltando a Viver' ('Returning to Live')