Antwone Fisher [Blu-ray] | ![Antwone Fisher [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51j9GHPK5TL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Denzel Washington
Actors: Denzel Washington, Derek Luke, Joy Bryant, Malcolm David Kelley, Cory Hodges
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  145 reviews
Sales Rank: 17745
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: FOXBR2256500
UPC: 024543565000
EAN: 0024543565000
ASIN: B001HVZOAC
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: January 20, 2009
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Autobiographical movies rarely get more truthfully moving than Antwone Fisher. The title is also the name of this fine drama's first-time screenwriter, a former Navy seaman who was working as a film-studio security guard when his life-inspired script was developed as Denzel Washington's directorial debut. This Hollywood dream gets better: unbeknownst to the filmmakers, Derek Luke--a newcomer who won the title role over a throng of famous contenders--was also a friend of Fisher's, and the whole film seems blessed by this fortunate coincidence. Washington's sharp instincts as an actor serve him well, as both a subtle-handed director and Luke's costar playing Jerome Davenport, a Navy psychologist assigned to assess Fisher's chronic violent temper. Their therapy sessions prove mutually beneficial, as this touching true story addresses painful memories, broken desires, and heartfelt reunions without resorting to a contrived happy ending. Fisher's good life is worth celebrating, and Washington brings a delicate touch to the party. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 20-JAN-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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 Antwone Fisher January 4, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Based on a true story, a biographical drama centering upon Antwone "Fish" Fisher who--once a Sony Pictures security guard--eventually gained fame as an acclaimed writer and a Hollywood producer. In the earlier part of his life, he was a sailor prone to violent outbursts. On the verge of being kicked out of the Navy for repeated fighting, he is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood rife with abuse. With the help of a Navy psychiatrist, he turns his life around and decides to embark on a search to find the family that abandoned him as a baby. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew. In the course of that search, his life changes dramatically. This movies shows the emotional life of a troubled man with uncommon sensitivity and insight.
Heaving Towards Home: No Child Left Behind November 9, 2009
P. Costello
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am not sure how I missed this movie. It is a wonderful reflection on race, family, responsibility, and honesty. The acting is superb, and the ending, if unusually happy, is helpful for those who find themselves in a situation that relates to the one in which the main character finds himself.
To come to the end and to be able to sit down to eat with a family who welcomes you--is that not what Eucharist is? What people all long for as they celebrate, as if compulsively, the annual rehearsals of Thanksgiving and other holidays?
When I was young, I used to help my parents update the books of pictures of children in foster care. Each state had a large binder. And in each one were pictures of hundreds, thousands of young children, mostly African-American. The pictures were removed when they turned 18. I still remember their faces, especially those of siblings who would not be parted.
Antwone was one who made it through and who found, despite being emotionally and physically tortured, some kind of peace and viable adulthood. May this movie encourage us to return again to the children we all have left behind. Children do not deserve the bad ways they are treated. They deserve to have their hands held, their faces held, their stomachs filled, and their loves returned.
The foster care system and the plight of African-American children is not a "black" problem. It is a national, systemic, racist, and classist problem. Denzel Washington did what he could to make a movie that keeps life as it is clearly on the radar. Go and do likewise--
All thumbs UP !!!! September 27, 2009
Gerardo G. Lopez (San Diego, CA USA)
I love it !!! Great !!!! Super !!!! I recommend it for all ages !!!
a humanity manifest August 22, 2009
Denis Aksenov (Moscow, Russia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
just saw the movie - my eyes are wet and i am happy these things touch me. it brings some very right emotions alive; i think most of us can find some common things with main characters. i am very thankful to film crew and would highly recommend this one.
Inspiring Movie August 20, 2009
E. Maxwell (Aguanga, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very good movie with a positive message. Based on a true story it tells of a man's struggle to succeed in spite of a very rough childhood. You are left with a warm and up-lifting feeling.
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