Jason's Lyric

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Summary: touching love story entwined in family struggle
Review: I enjoyed watching this young man and woman as they developed a romance while trying to cope with their own personal family's problems. Each coming from different yet similarly difficult backgrounds with a fledgling brother. Their attraction builds into a loving relationship that dreams are made of. The intensity of their passion comes upon you and makes you wish you were Jada or Allen. It also pulls you into the danger that both brothers become invloved in. The danger that eventually envelopes them both. Can their love transcend their struggle??

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Summary: Jason's Lyric
Review: I feel this movie shows how real love can come from the unexpected. And how life can bring circumstances that you cannot handle no matter how hard you try.

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Summary: what a success
Review: i love dis movie...i have to say out of many black films it is ....unpredicatble...its so tru to life as Jason faces having to chose between his love for lyric or his family. This predicament leads to more than he would have thought. Its definately worth buying. Very real as wellas lyruics character being so imaginative, and innovative! I dont fell that 15 or 14 yrs old's or any younger tan that should view this, its tooo x rated !!! - sexually

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Summary: my favorite movie ever!!!
Review: i love this movie. not only for the love story but for the relationship between jason and his brother this is a very emotional movie, lots of great acting i cant really think of enough good things to say if you like dramas this is definately the movie to buy. i recommend this to anyone who wants to watch a movie that will make you feel something, very touching.

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Summary: A TRUE LOVE STORY
Review: I saw this movie ten years ago when I was 13 and ten years later, I still love it. But now that I'm older, I can appreciate the story line even more. Jason is a troubled man haunted by his past that he continues to have nightmares. Due to his past, he feels obligated to help his brother who nothing but a criminal and content to stay one and his mother to help her out with his brother. But when he meets Lyric, a woman full of passion, sympathy and dreams, he realizes that he has to let the past go. But his brother continues to come between Lyric and himself until the end when he has to make the ultimate decision: to be with the woman he loves or to be with the brother he loves.

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Summary: good film
Review: I think that this movie was very good because it is very realistic as far as the situaions of life in the ghetto,love,and the struggles of life. It's not like most of these trunped up "hood movies" that seem to always glorify ghetto life instead of potraying it as it is.I think that it's not an innapropriate movie for young people in their pre teen and early teen years because the movie potrays issues that effect alot of kids these days in real life. But overall it's a must see.

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Summary: good film
Review: I think that this movie was very good because it is very realistic as far as the situations of life in the ghetto,love,and the struggles of life. It's not like most of these trunped up "hood movies" that seem to always glorify ghetto life instead of potraying it as it is.I think that it's not an innapropriate movie for young people in their pre teen and early teen years because the movie potrays issues that effect alot of kids these days in real life. But overall it's a must see.

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Summary: A Must See
Review: Jason's Lyric is a must have black romance. It's street which makes this movie so real. Love scenes are so beautiful, dramatic ending and a movie you could watch over and over again. Once again a Must Have.

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Summary: Love IS courage. Sing Jason's Lyric!
Review: Jason's Lyric is a true love story. In the midst of so much blight this film shows you that you don't need to have a Monster's Ball to know that love is courage and that there is hope in the bleakest of situations.
Allen Payne and Jada Pinkett give the best performances of their careers in this story of a man coming to terms with his troubled past while trying to help his brother (Bookeem Woodbine) who has just got out of prison. One day at work he finds his true love Lyric (Jada Pinkett) who wants to help him achieve his dream of a better life. He gets several chances, but is forced to turn them down because of his obligation to his brother. In a climatic conflict with his brother, Jason stops being his brother's keeper and resolves his personal issues. Jason achieves his dream and moves on with Lyric.
The script is well written; characters are well defined and have more dimensions than shown on the surface. The choices they make in their to change lives feel natural and not forced. Allen Payne makes you feel Jason's pain while Jada Pinkett shows us Lyric's love and compassion. Both Payne and Pinkett deserve better than what Hollywood has offered them currently, when given quality material they shine. Bokeem Woodbine makes you feel sorry for Jason's brother; you hate what he does, not him. Other noteworthy performances include Suzanne Douglas and Forrest Whitaker as Jason's Parents, and the two child actors who play young Jason and his brother. The production values are top notch on this film; I don't know why critics roasted this movie. It is very well done and should have been nominated for some Oscars.
This film has quite a few steamy love scenes; this film is not for kids. However, adults will find this to be a powerful and moving story full of hope character and courage.

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Summary: One of the best film's I have ever seen
Review: Jason's Lyric is one of the only movies to have realistic romance and passion there are very few films that have that. I feel this is one of the best romances ever made. Allen Payne performance is amazing so is Jada Pinkett Smith (...) the whole cast is great I loved this movie. But its a film for adults only they cut some scenes out of the movie to avoid a NC-17 rating. But even with the scenes they cut it still should have got the NC-17 rating. The love scenes in the movie are still very graphic. I have seen NC-17 rated movies and the sex in those films are not even close to the sex in the R rated Jason's Lyric. So I don't know what the Mpaa is doing but there giving the wrong movie NC-17 and giveing the ones that should an R rating. But anyway this is a amazing film and is for adults only.(...)