Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the newly paroled man seeks redemption. Instead, redemption—in the form of a mysterious minister and two needy women— finds him.
Billy Bob Thornton Morgan Freeman Holly Hunter Kirsten Dunst Manuel Aranguiz Geoffrey Wigdor Luke Robertson Dorian Harewood Catherine Colvey Billoah Greene Sadiki Burke Abede Burke Diego Abella Brent Rogers Cordell Clyde Fabio Lopez Chris D'Arienzo Gillian Ferrabee Vlasta Vrana Sheena Larkin Greg Shamie Didier Lucien Tim Post Danny Blanco Hall Tyler Hynes Ajay Fry James A. Woods David Acer Omar Falcon Show All…
O 5º Passo, Le salut, Muz, který zabil, I exileosi, Раскаяние, Lebegés, Η Εξιλέωση, לוויטי, O 5° Passo, Muž, který zabil, Легкодумство, 乞赎的灵魂
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Starring: My Name is Morgan Freeman
I grew up watching Billy Bob Thornton play these drunk and scummy characters in the Bad New Bears remake and Bad Santa and his troubled and crazy relationship with Angelina Jolie. I always saw him as such and couldn’t picture him playing more charming and likeable characters, but apparently, he did a lot of these early on in his career. I wish we had him back on this track. I mean, he has had some redeemable and sober roles lately, so there’s some hope, I guess.
As for this movie, it is one of those almost “magical” grounded dramas where, in this case, we have Thornton playing this man trying to redeem himself after…
Cinematic Time Capsule
2003 Marathon - Film #131
”I’m not what you think I am.”
The screenwriter of ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ and ‘Men in Black’ writes and directs his own movie called, ‘Levity’…. sounds like fun don’t it?
⚠️ Whoah there, bucky boy, not so fast! ⚠️
This one’s a morose and moody parade of sullen conversations. But if you’re looking for a indie where Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst and Billy Bob all compete to see who can be sadder, then this will be just the kind of downer to make you happy.
BONUS POINTS for what is so far, the only soundtrack ever composed by my man, Mark Oliver Everett of the band Eels. Now, would someone please convince E to reward us with even more scores? 🎶
”Sometimes you have to transgress a little bit to help the greater good”
Heavy handed and overwrought to be unintentionally funny at times.
At times it's a parody of an Oscar bait drama that makes you think all of the capable performers took the parts because they saw awards show fellatio in their future.
Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman and Holly Hunter do sad face for 2 hours because this is a Very Important Movie will big themes and speechifying.
If you sit through this you will qualify for the Eye Roll Olympics.
Levity is the worst kind of Hollywood film. It's Oscar grabbing, maudlin, pontificating, grandstanding, faux-politically correct shit of the highest order.
It really, really irritates me that these kinds of films keep getting made. This film has been made, one way or another, about a million times. Let's go through the checklist:-
* Ex-con convicted of a horrible crime who decides the best way of going straight is to not say much and look his feet a lot? Check.
* Respected veteran actor in a grizzly supporting role dishing out sage advice with a secret dodgy background? Check.
* Sexually precocious young temptress who's in to drink, drugs and clubbing and all that? Check.
* A run-in with some blokes 'in da ghetto'? Check.
* Vaguely underwritten female middle-aged role that the lead might have it off with? Check.
* It's shit? Check.
STOP MAKING THESE KINDS OF FILMS.
The only film directed by writer Ed Solomon is an understated but effective portrayal of a man just released from prison after serving a 21 year sentence for the murder of a convenience store clerk during a robbery gone wrong. Billy Bob Thornton stars as the redemptive shell of a person who has such a fervent desire to atone for his crime that he follows the sister of the man he killed (Holly Hunter), until eventually they meet and become friends — all this time of getting to know each other, he wants to tell her that he’s the one who killed her brother, but he’s afraid to disrupt what is one of the first positive interactions he’s had since…
Эд Соломон, сценарист "Билла и Теда", "Людей в черном" и "Ангелов Чарли", писал сценарий для своего "серьезного" режиссерского дебюта более 20 лет. Видимо, именно столько выводится из организма развлекательная голливудская зараза. Но в этой вялотекущей благостной драме нет ничего оригинального. Сиделец откидывается после 20 лет тюрьмы и хочет получить прощение у сестры убитого им при ограблении подростка, который ему иногда является. Билли Боб Торнтон с седыми патлами проявляет чудеса актерской сдержанности и спит на ходу, а остальные хорошие актеры честно отрабатывают свой хлеб. Единственное, что понравилось — заснеженные трущобы Монреаля и бойкая Кирстен Данст, единственный островок жизни в океане клишированной тоски.
Journey Into the Obscure: Episode XIX
A boring, forgettable, and grandstanding redemption story, Levity had potential to bring out a new side to Ed Solomon's writing not seen before but unfortunately wastes that potential on a bland mess of a directorial debut that's too dull and thematically simple to leave any sort of impact.
Gets as far as it does because of its lead performance. BBT does good work, but even Freeman and Hunter are wasted. Tells a heavy-handed story but unsuccessfully, with an unfocused script and direction from Solomon that inspires neither connection nor, well, levity.
I enjoyed this quiet drama with Billy Bob Thornton as a released prisoner who tries to survive in wintery Montréal. The sensitive humor is just beautiful.
Billy Bob Thornton is convincing even though his role is a little bit over the top!
Ed Solomon is one of those screenwriters that I really love, particularly his work on Men In Black and the first Charlie's Angels movie. To my understanding, this film was his first major (and only) directorial effort. It's pretty solid, although there are a few things in it that left me feeling a little cold.
Billy Bob Thornton is absolutely fantastic in the lead role. He is very reserved to most of the characters he meets, but it fits the character, a former criminal who has been released from prison, and trying to make the wrong things right again after a crime he committed 21 years before. He is confronting his past and never really lets anyone in on what…
From the Film Colony & Studio Canal & Sony Pictures Classics & Mill Creek Entertainment produced written & directed by Ed Solomon. It has an amazing ensemble cast including Billy Bob Thornton Morgan Freeman Kirsten Dunst & Holly Hunter. A bit slow but it's on purpose I think.
Billy Bob Thornton gives a solid Billy Bob Thornton performance as the repentant taciturn man released from prison after two decades, looking to redeem himself despite believing redemption is impossible after reading the scribbles of an eleventh century religious nut.
