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Keeper, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A deft, often chilling Iook at the unexpIoded dynamite of guard/prisoner reIations, The Keeperis a searing psychoIogicaI drama stunningly acted by GinacarIo Esposito, African superstar lsaach De Bankole .
Like the best work of Charles Burnett and Spike Lee, Joe Brewster's The Keeper Iooks beyond the stylish mayhem of "hood" cinema for something more real. ln doing so, it offers the viewer both a rivetin story and a range of characters that richly illuminate black America today.
GiancarIo Esposito is Paul Lamont, a corrections officer at the King's County House of Detention in Brooklyn. DisilIusioned with the justice system and those who enter it, PauI isn't sure what he beleives in anymore. His life is changed when he meets Jean-Baptiste , a Haitian immigrant imprisoned for rape he swears he did not commit. PauI is moved by the young man's pIight and heIps him with his baiI, eventually openning his home to him. PauI and his wife AngeIa soon find themseIves under the spsell of a charming stranger, with tragic resuIts, as they Iearn that even acts of mercy have a price. |
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