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Brother to Brother
Directed by
Rodney Evans
Not Rated
2004
1h 34m
Drama
7.1
76%
73%
5.1
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A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
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Cast of Brother to Brother
Anthony Mackie
Perry
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Marcus
Duane Boutte
Young Bruce
Daniel Sunjata
Langston
Alex Burns
Jim
Ray Ford
Wally
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Zora
Roger Robinson
Bruce Nugent
Chad L. Coleman
El
Lance Reddick
James
James Martinez
Julio - Perry's Boyfriend
Oni Faida Lampley
Evelyn
Billoah Greene
Rashan
Lucas Papaelias
Danny
Kevin Jackson
Isaiah (College Professor)
Richard Bekins
Carl
Leith M. Burke
Aaron
Bradley Cole
MacAllister - Book Publisher
Adam Wade
Sam the Bartender
Brian Everett Chandler
Mr. Williams (Perry's father)
Brother to Brother Ratings & Reviews
New York Magazine/Vulture
John Leonard
... it is more than welcome, full of generous quotations and ancestor worship-a memory book, a bildungsroman, and practically a palimpsest, with the past written over but not at all erased, still signifying.
Chicago Reader
Richard Porton
Evans's admirable desire to introduce a misunderstood era's legacy to a wider public helps to excuse the film's occasional clunky dialogue and narrative longueurs.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
Takes on a plethora of phobias. Homophobia, racial prejudice and age discrimination are among its targets, and it hits them squarely and fairly.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
An uneven but provocative drama.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A very good drama about the difficulties of being young, black, and gay. With a bigger budget and a sharper focus, it might have been a great one.
Washington Post
Bjorn Thomson
Works far better as an idea than its execution.
Chicago Tribune
Ellen Fox
Ambitious but clumsy, it's a movie to appreciate rather than to be engaged by.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
There are a couple of self-conscious moments, to be sure, and some anachronisms, but on the whole, Brother to Brother is a graceful work of range and depth.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Offers fascinating historical context and two fine lead performances (by Anthony Mackie and Roger Robinson) along with some rather awkward storytelling.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
[Evans'] overall effort is an eminently worthy one.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
An intelligent and entertaining exploration of racial and sexual politics that brings alive the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, and draws parallels with African-American identity crises of today.
New York Daily News
Robert Dominguez
Mackie gives a moving performance as Perry.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
The filmmaker's frankness and sincerity win out over his schematic tying-up of past and present and the stagy historical- recreation feel of the period sections.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Caught between two worlds and two seemingly warring identities, the lead character in Rodney Evans's heartfelt film Brother to Brother wears the weary and worried look of a man divided.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The filmmaker finds a way to pay homage to a lesser-known, valiant figure, sympathetically portrayed through Robinson's witty performance.
Village Voice
Jorge Morales
Not surprising for a film that uses a term paper as a framing device, Brother to Brother feels too much like a school project.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Brother to Brother looks back to the pioneering days of the Harlem Renaissance and traces its spiritual manifestation in present day New York City.
Variety
David Rooney
While the cast is uneven, Mackie and Robinson both create sensitive, sympathetic characters.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Has the quiet urgency of a story that must be told.
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