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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence resolutions which earned him multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. After exhausting all forms of appeal, Tookie was executed by lethal injection.
- Original title
- Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
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John Chard
Apr 5, 2015 · via TMDB
Red Light - Green Light If solely judged on Tookie Williams during his prison years, Redemption is a cracker-jack piece of film. It drives from the heart a sincerity that here was a man, that basically unleashed gangland hell on America, who desperately craved redemption from his prison cell. He strives to do good, to help communities by way of education in book and oration form, but is the film heavily biased towards the redemptive angle? Is the monster side of Williams soft soaped? Sadly yes it is. We don't need to see continual violence thrust in our faces to know Williams was a very bad egg, but although we see staged flashbacks that break the heart and frighten us, director Vondie Curtis-Hall and writer J.T. Allen are fully committed to garnering empathy for the man. Of course on the flip-side of that, if they showed an abundance of violence perpetrated by Williams, then accusations of glorifying would surely have followed. Yet there has to be a balance, a balance that some film makers do find, but it isn't found here. Is it a story worth telling? Yes it is, of course, and with a superb and controlled performance by Jamie Foxx in the title role driving it forwards, it remains riveting throughout. However, when the dust settles and the end credits roll, what of the victims families blighted by Williams crimes? How must they have felt seeing Williams having a film made about him? A double edged sword movie for sure, artistically above average? Yes. Morally? Questionable. 6/10
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Jamie Foxx
Stan 'Tookie' Williams
Lynn Whitfield
Barbara Becnel
Lee Thompson Young
Charles Becnel
Brenden Jefferson
Young Stan Williams
Brenda Bazinet
Barbara's Agent
Greg Ellwand
Prison Chief
CCH Pounder
Winnie Mandela
Joseph Pierre
17yr. old Ray Washington
Karl Campbell
Deuce-Five
Martin Roach
Guard Morales
David Fraser
Strange Man
Aaron Meeks
Banger #1
Philip Craig
Warden Gomez
Rosemary Dunsmore
Warden Woodford
Shane Daly
Associate Warden Scanlon
Scott Wickware
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Barbara Gordon
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Laura de Carteret
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Dan Duran
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