American Violet Blu Ray Nicole Beharie
Nicole Beharie (The Express), Will Patton (Entrapment, The Postman), Charles Dutton (TV’s Roc, Mimic) and Alfre Woodard (TV’s Desperate Housewives, Primal Fear) star in this gripping true-life story. Falsely accused of propagating narcotics in a school zone, Dee Roberts (Beharie) is offered a deal she can’t refuse: plead guilty and receive a 10-year suspended sentence. The alternative: danger serving 16-to-25 in jail. Realizing a conviction would demolish her life, Dee decides to fight back. Suing the DA for racial discrimination, Dee battles out of the question odds in a case that will not only alter her life but the laws of Texas as well.
American Violet may be based on the story of outrageous injustices devoted versus Regina Kelly of Hearne, Texas, but that does not make it a good film. It is, at best, a bad film with an indispensable message. American Violet is in regards to a single mother of four, Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), who is wrongly convicted of drug charges due to police racism and corruption. As she struggles to stay out of prison with the support of her mother, Alma (Alfre Woodard), Dee exemplifies a stalwart woman who refuses to plead guilty when offered a plea bargain. While names of characters and the town itself are changed, the story in American Violet is allegedly altered only somewhat in hopes of preserving it is tragic truth, that a plea-bargain scheme in Texas forced, in this case, impoverished and from time to time innocent African Americans to receive guilty charges and their negative aftereffects. American Violet‘s melodramatic sensibility attempts to spark the same indignation that fuels ACLU lawyer David Cohen (Tim Blake Nelson) to embark on a lawsuit versus the head racist, district attorney Calvin Beckett (Michael O’Keefe). Cohen, with the support of a former narcotics officer, Sam Conroy (Will Patton), discovers sufficient proof to disturb any viewer. While it is necessary to have artful dialog regarding this politically offensive topic, American Violet is not finely scripted or cinematically engaging sufficient to elevate it above second-hand documentary. Still, since the film does cover significant territory, there may be a place for it in classrooms, or it may inspire others to work on further exposing gross injustice for the gain of our society. –Trinie Dalton
American Violet Blu Ray Nicole Beharie Photo
American Violet Blu Ray Nicole Beharie Image
American Violet Blu Ray Nicole Beharie Photo
American Violet Blu Ray Nicole Beharie Image
Profiling the Drug Wars
Wouldn’t it be terrible to find yourself jailed for something you did not do, based solely on the word of a lying, mentally ill drug addict? That’s what happened to Regina Kelly in Hearne, Texas back in 2000. Ensnared in a mass arrest of suspected drug dealers at her housing project, the young single mother was charged with marketing drugs in a school zone. Despite her insistence that she was innocent, her court-appointed attorney pressured her to receive a plea bargain to refrain from numerous years in prison and the loss of her children. With no criminal record and no drugs found on or near her, she refused the deal. Instead, with the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union she filed a class action lawsuit.
A RECOMMENDED EYE-OPENER FOR ALL!!!!
Seen a looking at of ‘AMERICAN VIOLET’ recently.. And I had mixed emotions: upset, melancholy, ecstatic, and surprised! To be falsely accused of a crime, that you recognise deep in your heart you did NOT commit, is one thing… But when your so-called lawyer proposes you to take a plea bargain, oppose to fighting for your clearance makes one wonder who may you trust… This movie, based on factual events, is heartwrenching, as it is an eye-opener!!! I’d commend that everyone sees this flick, even teens!!! Granted this ocurred in Melody, Texas, it’s taking place worldwide…
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