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American Violet. After an overzealous district attorney's drug bust lands her in jail, single mother Dee Roberts must face an agonizing choice: Plead guilty and go home a convicted felon, or fight the charges and risk a lengthy prison sentence. Despite her mother's advice and risking everything, innocent Dee chooses to fight the criminal ...
Despite her mother's advice and risking everything, innocent Dee chooses to fight the criminal justice system, joined by an ACLU attorney and a former narcotics cop. Drama 2009 1 hr 42 min. 75%. PG-13. Starring Nicole Beharie, Will Patton, Alfre Woodard. Director Tim Disney.
Alfre Woodward was, of course, flawless in this movie. Xzibit's performance surprised me a bit--he was GREAT! Not too over-the-top, not too flat; his work was just right. Films like this can easily drag on, or be a bit slow, often times playing almost like documentaries. This was definitely a film. One I could watch again. Great Film!
American Violet is a vessel that shares just one story about the racism and stereotyping that is infused into many of the small town justice departments across America. This particular story is about Dee (Nicole Beharie) who has 4 daughters to 3 different men, two of whom are in prison. Dee is single and living with her wonderful mother Alma ...
13 ott 2009 · American Violet has put on trial the entire “so called” American justice system through the plight of Deedee, the heroin of the story. With meticulous and magic strokes, script writer Bill Haney had touched many of the issues that plague the disenfranchised in the American society, in majority the African American communities: deep poverty, single parent family (DeeDee Roberts, the heroin ...
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Based on real events and set in a small Texas town in the midst of the 2000 Bush/Gore Presidential election, American Violet tells the astonishing story of Dee Roberts (Beharie), a 24 year old single mother of four who is wrongfully swept up and arrested in a drug raid along with 28 others. Despite the urgings of her mother (Woodard), and with ...
