Antwone Fisher: DVD comes out on 5/20

CrimsonTide4 · #1 10-12-2002, 04:15 PM

Not only does it look like a GOOD AZZ movie, but it is also Denzel's directorial debut too:

Drama
Antwone "Fish" Fisher was a Sony Pictures security guard who gained fame as a writer-producer. However, he began as an angry sailor, on the verge of being kicked out of the Navy for repeated fighting. 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. In the course of that search, his life changes dramatically.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, language and mature thematic materiatl involving child abuse.

Release Date: December 20, 2002.

Love_Spell_6 · #2 10-13-2002, 12:42 PM

If Denzel's name is anywhere near it..........I'm there!

snuggles12 · #3 10-13-2002, 01:26 PM

My bookclub read this book. From the previews, it seems like the movie focuses more on his navy career than on his childhood (the book focused more on his childhood). It will be interesting to see if the movie does any of the funny church scenes in the book.

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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Not only does it look like a GOOD AZZ movie, but it is also Denzel's directorial debut too:

Drama
Antwone "Fish" Fisher was a Sony Pictures security guard who gained fame as a writer-producer. However, he began as an angry sailor, on the verge of being kicked out of the Navy for repeated fighting. 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. In the course of that search, his life changes dramatically.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, language and mature thematic materiatl involving child abuse.

Release Date: December 20, 2002.

CrimsonTide4 · #4 10-13-2002, 01:38 PM

There's a book too!?!?!?!?!?

Gotta read THAT first!! In the previews, I saw where they flashbacked to his childhood.

I have THIS book. My aunt gave it to me back @ Easter and I never read it. Let me find it so I can read it.

He grew up in Cleveland.

Amazon.com
Thank goodness Antwone Fisher's story has a happy ending--otherwise, his searing memoir would be nearly unbearable to read. His father was killed by a gunshot blast shortly before he was born in 1959; his 17-year-old mother gave him up for foster care. Unfortunately for Antwone, his foster mother was as successful at browbeating and demeaning her many wards as she was at lying to the Child Welfare authorities. His working-class African American neighborhood in Cleveland became purgatory for a sensitive, intelligent boy who quickly turned into a withdrawn underperformer at school. In Fisher's blow-by-blow account of his childhood, his sexual abuse at the hands of a female neighbor is hardly more horrifying than his foster mother's relentless cruelty--especially because respectable, churchgoing Mrs. Pickett justifies it all as due to the boy's wicked faults. Readers will be relieved when she dumps 15-year-old Antwone back at the Child Welfare office, even though he will endure homelessness and a scary spell of criminal employment, before an 11-year stint in the Navy provides him with a way forward. Grim though his tale is, Fisher displays throughout it the grit and stubborn integrity that kept him sane. He musters up some understanding (not forgiveness) for the dreadful Mrs. Pickett, and his eventual meeting with his burned-out mother is painfully poignant. He certainly deserves the beautiful wife and cute two-year-old daughter, cooking pancakes for him in the book's closing and redemptive scene. --Wendy Smith

Gina1201 · #5 10-13-2002, 02:19 PM

Thanks for posting that synopsis CT4. I think I'll go to the library this week and see if they have this book available.

CrimsonTide4 · #6 10-13-2002, 02:34 PM

Everyone try to read it so we can have a book discussion by DECEMBER 1, 2002 and get ourselves prepared for the movie on December 20.

kiml122 · #7 10-13-2002, 06:18 PM

I saw the preview for thismoive when I sent to see Brown Sugar this weekend.It looks really good, and of course with Denzel in it, and directing, I'm going to have to support it when it comes out.

stillwater15 · #8 10-14-2002, 10:29 PM

i read this book about a year ago and really enjoyed it, although i had issues w/most of the social workers who "worked" w/the young a. fisher. i probably won't see the movie, because they're rarely as good as the books. it is encouraging to see that in spite of his upbringing/circumstances, he finally able to prosper.

CrimsonTide4 · #9 12-01-2002, 09:28 PM

http://www.foxsearchlight.com/antwonefisher/

AKA2D '91 · #10 12-06-2002, 05:28 PM

Denzel is on Oprah now, via satellite discussing the film. Fresh new faces (AA) to watch.

CrimsonTide4 · #11 12-06-2002, 05:36 PM

Not in Norf Wackalacky. . . they have a live press conference discussing the "State wide" power outages.

AKA2D '91 · #12 12-06-2002, 08:38 PM

The movie opens December 25th, according to Oprah.

CrimsonTide4 · #13 12-16-2002, 04:55 PM

This Friday, get ye ready, . . . Derek Luke will be the next hot commodity. I saw the previews for his March movie Biker Boys yesterday @ Drumline.

I might wait and go see it while at home with my family though.

AKA2D '91 · #14 12-16-2002, 07:00 PM

I saw that! What was up with Laurence, uh oh, I mean Larry's

mustache. LMAO

Even Larenz Tate has raised his head from below.

CrimsonTide4 · #15 12-20-2002, 05:16 PM

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

ANTWONE FISHER IS ONLY open in select cities today -- LA/NY!!! booooooooooooooooooooooooooo hiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssss

**boycott**