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Rob Peace

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6.7/10 • 55

2024-08-022h 0m

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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.

Directors
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Writters
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Editors
Masahiro Hirakubo

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  1. Jay Will

    Jay Will

    Robert DeShaun Peace

  2. Mary J. Blige

    Mary J. Blige

    Jackie Peace

  3. Chiwetel Ejiofor

    Chiwetel Ejiofor

    Robert E. 'Skeet' Douglas

  4. Camila Cabello

    Camila Cabello

    Naya

  5. Michael Kelly

    Michael Kelly

    Edwin Leahy

  6. Mare Winningham

    Mare Winningham

    Professor Durham

  7. Gbenga Akinnagbe

    Gbenga Akinnagbe

    Carl

  8. Juan Castano

    Juan Castano

    Oswaldo Gutierrez

  9. Lori Hammel

    Lori Hammel

    Jury Foreperson

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CinemaSerf

Sep 7, 2024

6/10

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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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
$376,554.00
Keywords
based on novel or bookbiographybased on true storyyale universityracismhardship1980s1990s2000s2010sshootingnewark, new jerseyabsent fathertragicbased on real person