Gun Hill Road (film)
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Director Rashaad Ernesto Green Duration Running time 1h 28m Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Initial release August 5, 2011 (USA) Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Rashaad Ernesto Green, Zora Howard (poetry) Executive producers Esai Morales, Ron Simons, Fotis Georgiadis Music director Enrique C. Feldman, Stefan Swanson Cast Judy Reyes (Angela), Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (Thompson), Esai Morales (Enrique), Tyrone Brown (Chris), Reinaldo Marcus Green (Prison Guard 2)Similar movies Interstellar , Jupiter Ascending , Pitch Perfect 2 , The Matrix , The Wolf of Wall Street , Frozen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gun Hill Road is a 2011 drama film starring Esai Morales. The title of the film derives from the Bronx road of the same name. The film is notable for starring a transgender character (Michael) who is played by a real transgender person, Harmony Santana, who was the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
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Gun hill road first look clip sundance 2011
Plot
Ex-con Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home after a stint in prison. His wife Angela has had an affair while he was away, and his child Michael, who is a young trans woman in the process of transitioning and coming out, is exploring life, leaving Enrique with decisions to make regarding his family's future.
Cast
Reception
The film has received mixed reviews. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter said in his review: " In his feature debut, Gun Hill Road, writer-director Rashaad Ernesto Green displays compassion for his characters and an ability to create strong scenes to underscore his thematic concerns. But the story itself is too shopworn especially at Sundance where countless films have presented dysfunctional families where parents and offspring are at odds".
Dennis Harvey of Variety similarly said; "script and direction tend to telegraph all events, draining the competently packaged pic of tension, nuance and surprise".
Director Rashaad Ernesto Green was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
The subject matter of the movie was noted "for the casualness with which it puts a Hispanic transsexual in a black male's bed" because this kind of relationship is rarely seen in movies.
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References
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