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Singleton</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="549" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 44 WIDTH="545"><div> The homeless face, an eternal cycle of failure and reorganization</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="269"><div> Romulus Ledbetter: Samuel L. 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He moves in and out of his state of schizophrenia to solve the murder of another homeless person, found outside the cave where he lives.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> Romulus Ledbetter's (Samuel L. Jackson) "home" is a cave, in a Manhattan park in NYC. In his mind he sees live TV programs on a set that has no electricity. Scary looking, but not too frightening, he is a regular street person that Bob (Anthony Michael Hall), who lives in a penthouse, knows well enough to make eye contact with, as he enters and leaves his building. Eventually they have a meaningful, and surprising, conversation.    </div> <bR> <div> Romulus is divorced from his wife Sheila (Tamara Tunie) and estranged from his NYC policewoman daughter, Lulu (Aunjanue Ellis). He often has visions of Sheila that come to him when he is thinking about things that remind him of his prior life; such as when he goes to the library to conduct research. In his frequent bouts of paranoia, Romulus sees lasers tracking his movements from atop the Chrysler Building.</div> <bR> <div> After he finds a homeless dead man perched in a tree outside his cave, Romulus decides to seek out who killed him, because the police don't seem inclined to provide justice for people who don't have a mailing address.</div> <bR> <div> He contacts Lulu to ask for help on the QT from the police department. At the same time, he asks Bob for an old suit, so he can discard is homeless persona and mingle with normal people, however you care to define that. Following his clues, Romulus soon suspects David Leppenraub (Colm Feore), a popular avant-garde photographer, whose work focuses on people in various states of pain or agony. He is both rich and famous. David's sister Moira (Ann Magnuson) is not <I>quite </I>as far out as Romulus and in his quasi-normal state, they are for the most part on the same level. They become sexually involved and Jackson gets a chance to get the action he was not able to in <A HREF="id118.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shaft"><U><I><B>Shaft</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id118.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shaft"><U><I>. </I></U></A>There is a passionate nude scene that rivals the butt shot of Danny Glover in <I>Beloved.</I> </div> <bR> <div> This is a murder mystery, which is more about how people think and relate to one another than who committed the crime.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: Samuel L. Jackson arguably turns in his best acting performance ever, as he shows how to not overdo his ranting and ravings as he moves into and out of mental lucidity. This could have easily turned into a shouting match, which would have become tiresome with endless speeches, like many films with Kevin Spacey and Nicolas Cage. The beauty of this movie is being able to think, see and feel like a person of high intelligence, who can no longer function in society. Tamara Tunie provides texture to the film by showing the relationship that was, and will never be again, with Jackson, even though they never meet face to face in real time in the film. </div> <bR> <div> Director Kasi Lemmons had quite a bit of difficulty obtaining funding for this movie and because of its artistic nature, I understand why. Although <I>Eve's Bayou</I> had its otherworldly references linked to voodoo, that was easier to follow and was not as much of the essence of the story as the delusions that Jackson has throughout this film. I like it better than <I>Bayou</I> because it gives me some insight into homeless people, and how close many of us are to mentally loosing it. Jackson was in both films and I expect we will see them working together again.</div> <bR> <div>  We all know there is a thin line between love and hate, but it may be more taut between sanity and madness.     </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> R (sex; nudity; violence; language)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> George O. Singleton © 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>George@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Mini Filmography </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="622" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="286"><div> Samuel L. 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