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Summary: Make This a Must Scheduled "Visit"
Review: "The Visit" is a very fine film with formidable performances, especially from the superb Hill Harper and Billy Dee Williams. I also thought Rae Dawn Chong was the best I've ever seen her. It is a terrible shame this film was deemed fit only to been seen in theatres on the West and East coasts. I would definitely have paid good money to see this film to give it the proper support it so richly deserved. I found myself connecting with these characters completely and regretted seeing them leave after a truly magnificent stay in my home for an hour and forty five minutes. Please rent this film. There may be little we can do about supporting it at a theatre near our respective homes, however we can do what is necessary to make sure it flies off video shelves. While it is not my intention to insult films like "The Brothers" and "Two Can Play That Game," I do feel it is worth noting that films like "The Visit" ("Eve's Bayou" comes to mind as well as the television series adaptation of the film "Soul Food") represent the talent Black actors and filmmakers are capable of if only given the chance to be seen and heard. Bravo to Jordan Walker Pearlman for his exquisite film and let us hope this represents an embracing of excellence in the telling of Black people's stories on screen. I am very, very proud.
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Summary: Outstanding redemption story
Review: "The Visit" is an outstanding expanded view of a prison inmate dying of AIDS. His world is defined by visits from family members and an old girl friend, and by his meetings with a prison psychologist and the parole board. Each encounter is followed by dream sequences where he imagines an intimacy with them that is impossible across the physical and mental barriers defining their short time together. The story paints a larger picture of anger, love, and forgiveness that reaches beyond the unsentimental and unvarnished prison drama to a universal redemption unbound by prison walls. Say amen somebody; this is true religion at its best, sans God or Bible, but rich in human love.
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Summary: Transformation
Review: Although I missed the beginning of The Visit ,I found it filled with powerful acting and a story of transformation. How did I miss this? It was released in 2001. What else is out there?
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Summary: The Visit is worth the trip.
Review: Based on the reviews printed, I purchased The Visit. I am forever greatful. It was a beautiful film. Rich in texture and in talent. Harper is wonderful as the convict infected with the aid virus. I was so moved by his performance I was reduced to tears. I held my chest and became speechless at the end. Thank you for rating this film with 5 stars. I might have missed it otherwise.
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Summary: Bear's take on The Visit
Review: I am a Black African from South Africa and like movies in general but I am an avid supporter of Black Amarican movies. This was a very good movie with superb acting by all. This movie for me was a fresh change from movies like Boys 'n the Hood, Best Man, Love Jones etc. Don't get me wrong, these movies hold their own in their respective genres and I love them. It's just that seeing Hill Harper giving such a powerful, convincing portrayal of inmate Alex Waters dying of AIDS made me respect him even more as an actor. In fact i regretted buying his other movie Loving Jezebel. I know the genre is different but I still think that The Visit is a better movie both in terms of material and Hill Harper's acting. Having said that, the performance by the entire cast (Rae dawn Chong, Obba Babatunde, Phylicia Rashad, Marla Gibbs and Billy Dee Williams) was excellent.
I really welcome movies like this, movies that tackle social issues experienced by real people and at the same time provide actors with serious roles with depth. Keep up the good work
Simangele Mkhize, Westville, South Africa.
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Summary: Disapointed Fan
Review: I am so dissapointed in this film. When I saw it at the store I bought it right away because of Billy Dee and Hill Harper. But I gotta tell you, The movie never went anywhere. I Thought that there would be more scenery, but it was Just the prison. I hate to tell you the movie, if you hadn't already seen it but, The end is the only plot that actually make the movie interesting. By then I really hated that I sat there 107 min for only 2 or 3 interesting scenes.
Was it just me or did it seem that Hill Harper was trying to act like Denzel did in Hurricane?
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Summary: Crying for A Criminal
Review: I never believed I could cry for a criminal. I always assumed they were in prison because twelve strangers said, "Guilty." The movie, The Visit, took me not only inside of prison walls, it took me inside of the prisoner's heart...a heart most people on the outside never know, not even a father. It took me inside the prisoner's thoughts as he looked at me through my television screen. I felt guilty for my own freedom. I saw in his eyes what I have felt many times, the sadness of a person who deserved more, a person who was not heard, a person who so much begs for freedom but can only look through cold steel bars. This movie gave me a sense of what my freedom really means. Freedom is a choice every day of your life. You don't have to go to prison to be in prison. I cried the tears this man could not part with. This movie is a lesson in life.
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Summary: Crying for A Criminal
Review: I never believed I could cry for a criminal. I always assumed they were in prison because twelve strangers said, "Guilty." The movie, The Visit, took me not only inside of prison walls, it took me inside of the prisoner's heart...a heart most people on the outside never know, not even a father. It took me inside the prisoner's thoughts as he looked at me through my television screen. I felt guilty for my own freedom. I saw in his eyes what I have felt many times, the sadness of a person who deserved more, a person who was not heard, a person who so much begs for freedom but can only look through cold steel bars. This movie gave me a sense of what my freedom really means. Freedom is a choice every day of your life. You don't have to go to prison to be in prison. I cried the tears this man could not part with. This movie is a lesson in life.
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Summary: Crying for A Criminal
Review: I never believed I could cry for a criminal. I always assumed they were in prison because twelve strangers said, "Guilty." The movie, The Visit, took me not only inside of prison walls, it took me inside of the prisoner's heart...a heart most people on the outside never know, not even a father. It took me inside the prisoner's thoughts as he looked at me through my television screen. I felt guilty for my own freedom. I saw in his eyes what I have felt many times, the sadness of a person who deserved more, a person who was not heard, a person who so much begs for freedom but can only look through cold steel bars. This movie gave me a sense of what my freedom really means. Freedom is a choice every day of your life. You don't have to go to prison to be in prison. I cried the tears this man could not part with. This movie is a lesson in life.
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Summary: YOU HAVE NOT SEEN A MOVIE LIKE THIS!!!!!
Review: Let me begin by saying, "I have never seen a movie like this!!" From the very beginning, I fell in love with this movie. Every actor and actress gave a stellar performance! Hill Harper has shown why he is the "next best thing." Billy Dee Williams hasn't given this good a performance since Mahogany. The lighting, the make up (I won't say how because it will give away the movie) and the director's vision is excellent. In this day of big budget movies that try to move you, independent films like this shows how a movie is supposed to touch and move you!!
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