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Genres:
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Drama /
History /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Phillip Noyce
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Actors:
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Terry Pheto,
Charlotte Savage,
Bonnie Henna,
Mncedisi Shabangu,
Sithembiso Khumalo,
Michele Burgers,
Mpho Lovinga,
Mxo,
Jessica Anstey,
Nomhlé Nkyonyeni,
Michael Mabizela,
Eduan van Jaarsveldt,
Tim Robbins,
Derek Luke,
Tumisho Masha
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)136
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Plot Summary:
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A political thriller: the authentic-vitality story of a South African hero's overseas to freedom. In the wilderness's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an lubricate refinery foreman and soccer instruct who is apolitical - until he and his wife Choice are jailed. Patrick is stunned into fight against the country's heavy reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos to a greater distance insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
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Catch a Fire
Claudia PuigCatch a Fire is a potent political thriller about an ordinary man transformed into a rebel in apartheid-era South Africa.
It features a powerful and engaging performance by Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher) as an apolitical oil refinery foreman unjustly accused of terrorist acts, imprisoned and tortured.
Set in 1980, it is based on the true story of Patrick Chamusso (Luke) and written by Shawn Slovo, the son of Joe Slovo, who ran the military wing of the African National Congress, which fought apartheid.
After enduring torture and seeing his wife beaten by the Afrikaner regime, he becomes politicized and is transformed into a revolutionary.
The movie vibrantly captures African life with a rousing musical score. Though preachy at t...
Catch a Fire
Todd McCarthyDirector Phillip Noyce capably applies the polished technique of his '90s Hollywood action films to the sort of political material that has attracted him of late in Catch a Fire. But the question nags as to what pressing need there is, 25 years after the fact, for a thriller that hinges on apartheid in South Africa when there are so many new pressing and pertinent political and cultural issues. Stories of resistance to oppression will never become obsolete, but this feels like a picture that should have been made a long time ago, creating a tough marketing challenge to reignite much public interest in this particular cause.
Pic tells the true story of Patrick Chamusso, an apolitical oil refinery foreman who, during a period spanning 1980-81, was radicaliz...
BELOW AVG
I THOUGHT THIS FILM WAS LONG WINDED AND LACKED EXCITEMENT
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