Release Date: December 28th, 2012
DVD Release Date: April 2nd, 2013
R|1 hr 34 min
Plot Summary
Accompanied by his young nephew (Michael Rainey Jr.), an ex-convict (Common) tries to raise money through a drug deal.
Cast: Common , Michael Rainey Jr., Charles S. Dutton, Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Meagan Good, Marc John Jefferies, Lonette McKee
Director: Sheldon Candis
Genres: Drama
Distributors: Indomina
Here is a film about African Americans that sidesteps all the usual, hopeful cliches and comments on how one failed generation raises another. show more
Even if some of them are playing hackneyed gangster-film types, the strength of the actors makes it almost possible to forgive the formulaic plotting and artificially movie-ish developments. Candis and Justin Wilson's screenplay stretches credibility thinner and thinner as the story advances. show more
So it's nice that, despite some cliched rhythms, the flawed-ex-con-makes-good drama LUV gets the details of childhood-cut-short heartbreakingly right. show more
