The Cavemans Valentine
6.4 /10 1 Votes
46% Rotten Tomatoes 3.8/5 Amazon Genre Crime, Drama, Music Country United States | 6/10 IMDb 3/4 Roger Ebert Initial DVD release July 17, 2001 Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 2, 2001 (2001-03-02) Cast (Romulus), (Leppenraub), (Moira), (Lulu), (Sheila) Similar movies Samuel L Jackson appears in The Cavemans Valentine and Lakeview Terrace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Caveman's Valentine is a 2001 American mystery-drama film directed by Kasi Lemmons and starring Samuel L. Jackson based on George Dawes Green's 1994 novel of the same name. The film was released by Universal Focus, a subsidiary of Universal Studios and Focus Features.
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Plot
A former family man and pianist studying at Juilliard music school, Romulus Ledbetter (Samuel L. Jackson), now suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and lives in a cave in Inwood Park, New York. He believes that a man named Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant is controlling the world with rays from the top of the Chrysler Building, and that his mind is inhabited by moth-like seraphs. On Valentine’s Day, he discovers the frozen body of a young man, Scotty Gates (Sean MacMahon), left in a tree outside his cave. The police, including Romulus's daughter Lulu (Aunjanue Ellis), dismiss the man's death as accident however, a homeless ex-lover of Scotty tells Romulus that he was murdered by the famous photographer David Leppenraub (Colm Feore). Determined to discover the truth behind Scotty’s death and prove his worth to his daughter, Romulus manages to get an invitation through a former friend to perform one of his compositions at Leppenraub’s farm. What unfolds thereafter is a twisted tale of mystery, deception, and a man's struggle against his own mind.
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Critical reception
The Caveman's Valentine received a 46% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a general consensus that the film "has an intriguing premise, but falls flat under the weight of its ambition." On Metacritic, which uses an average of critics' reviews, the film has 44 out of 100, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Awards
In 2002, Tamara Tunie was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female.
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