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The movie is an update of Shakespeare's 'Othello' but with a younger cast, setting is in an upper class prep school, & focused on the basketball player Odin.
The movie is an update of Shakespeare's 'Othello' but with a younger cast, setting is in an upper class prep school, & focused on the basketball player Odin.
Actors:
Errol McPherson,
Dana Ratliff,
Kelvin OBryant,
Christopher Jones,
Jantz Baker,
Julie Fishell,
Ken French
Errol McPherson
Dana Ratliff
Kelvin OBryant
26 October 1983, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Christopher Jones
4 February 1982, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
Jantz Baker
Julie Fishell
Ken French
Country:
United States
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September 17, 2006
Long on the Shelf, O is well directed and decently acted, but its narrative, while more or less faithful to Shakespeare, tried to do too much, pushing the characters and their emotions to unreasonable and unconvincing extremes.
March 25, 2008
It's highly enjoyable and well acted, with the Iago figure better motivated than in the original play, no single line of which has been retained except for the odd echo.
January 26, 2006
Credit, none the less, to the film-makers' game, unpatronising approach, and to Phifer and Stiles as compelling innocents.
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January 09, 2006
Leave it to Hollywood to make a bold, challenging film for teens (and adults) only to let it collect dust on a shelf as proposed release dates were set, then scratched, many times over.
September 28, 2001
In the end, the Shakespearean ideas collapse on film because of the youthful callowness of the characters.
July 06, 2008
The presence of old lags Martin Sheen and John Heard just beggars belief. What were they thinking?
March 31, 2008
This arty melodrama is not likely to make teenage America get down with Shakespeare.
March 01, 2007
Helmer Nelson has fashioned a clever premise, helped along by a smart ensemble that manages to highlight Shakespeare's work without parodying it--no small accomplishment.
September 17, 2001
On your already groaning Shakespeare for Teens video shelf, stack this one above 10 Things I Hate About You ... and quite a bit below Romeo + Juliet.
December 30, 2006
Hartnett never allows him to become a hissable villain, keeping Hugo shy of our sympathies, yet his every move is utterly believable.
Variety
March 25, 2008
This transferral of the tragedy of the Moor to a contempo American high school is something that never should have gone further than a class assignment to see if it could be made to work.
New York Magazine/Vulture
September 07, 2001
It's a doomy dirge of a movie, in which the protagonists, or at least the actors who play them, aren't equipped to handle their outsize passions.