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Rob Peace
Your future's worth fighting for.
An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.
- Original title
- Rob Peace
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- $376,554
CinemaSerf
Sep 7, 2024 · via TMDB
Jay Will turns in an engaging enough effort here but I found the whole story just a bit lacking in substance. It's based on a true story, adapted by director Chiwetel Ejiofor who plays the father of the eponymous young lad. He's separated from his mother (Mary J. Blige) but seems to be on decent terms with them as he comes for a routine visit in his dilapidated old car. Quickly, a tragedy strikes and dad "Skeet" finds himself sent to prison for a double murder. It falls to son Rob to try to find a way to prove his innocence. Skip on a few years and we find this young man, highly adept at mathematics, proving his genius as he manages to get into the Ivy League thanks to some sponsorship from his prep school but again, he is constantly striving to find a way to extricate his dad from jail. It's his skills at chemistry that now serve a different purpose as he and a few colleagues develop a brand new revenue stream that makes him very popular amongst the student body (and mind) whilst raising the cash to fund his dad's appeal. Meantime, with their community gradually falling to wrack and ruin, he also hits on the idea of using some of his cash to kick-start refurbishment works on over 170 homes that have been abandoned or foreclosed upon to revitalise his community - but when the sub-prime crash hits the world it leaves him desperately exposed in more ways than one. When we get to the end of this film, it does make you look back and think a little about how society can contrive to thwart people with even the slightest degree of social ambition - even when is appears to be eminently commercially viable, but the problem here is that there's just way too much missing from the narrative. We skip ahead when we ought to be developing his character his situation. There is virtually nothing from the trial that convicted his father, for example. Peace is clearly a decent man of idealism, reduced to using the tools at his disposal to funds things way more permanent than a flashy car or some bling for his girl (Camilla Cabello) but again the storytelling leaves us to make too many assumptions about who did what back when and about his own, ostensibly victimless, crimes that risk compromising his long sought goals. Interestingly, this isn't a film that takes much of a racial stance. His colour seems not to have been especially relevant as his education progressed but in the end it was maybe just a short story that's undercooked here and skirts over too many of the issues it needed to fulfil it's promise. It's still worth a watch, but the telly will suit it fine.
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Jay Will
Robert DeShaun Peace
Mary J. Blige
Jackie Peace
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Robert E. 'Skeet' Douglas
Camila Cabello
Naya
Michael Kelly
Edwin Leahy
Mare Winningham
Professor Durham
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Carl
Juan Castano
Oswaldo Gutierrez
Lori Hammel
Jury Foreperson
Benjamin Papac
Jeff Hobbs
Ian Duff
Sherman
Max MacKenzie
John Anderson
Caleb Eberhardt
Curtis
Curt Morlaye
Tavarus
Decater James
Gunman
Reggie Alvin Green
Horace Peace
Thom Niemann
Water Polo Player #2
Chance K. Smith
Rob Peace 13
Kevin D. Benton
Construction Worker (boarding up the corner store) (uncredited)
Rony Clanton
Old Friend
Paul Juhn
Dr. Christopher Yang
Tyler Bourke
Lucas Adams
Jolly Swag
Noah Andrews
Ken Land
State Attorney
Rosemary Howard
Homeowner
Gabby Beans
Darlene
Noah Epps
Curtis Gamble 13
Jordan Boatman
Estella Moore
Andrew Dolan
Hon. Edwin H. Stern
Fred Inkley
Hon. Alvin Weiss
Rosalyn Coleman
Jacinta Johnson
Robert Farrior
Tom Rivers
Robert Ray Manning Jr.
Michael Tucker
Marjorie Johnson
Frances Peace
Roy T. Anderson
Stunt Coordinator
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Director
Alexa L. Fogel
Casting
Jeff Skoll
Executive Producer
Mary J. Blige
Executive Producer
Robert Kessel
Executive Producer
Alexander Fleming
Executive Producer's Assistant
Alex Kurtzman
Producer
Antoine Fuqua
Producer
Jenny Lumet
Producer
Kat Samick
Producer
Jeff Russo
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
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