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Fruitvale Station
Cast
Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand View AllCrew
Ryan Coogler (Screenplay), Ryan Coogler (Director) View All
Release: Jul. 26th, 2013
Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
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Fruitvale Station
Our review of the film is up and I'm posting here mainly because I feel recent events have caused reviews and viewers to become highly wary of saying anything even remotely curious that might raise th...
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Captain Spaulding
Fruitvale Station opens with the real-life footage of the fatal 2009 incident between Oscar Grant and police, so viewers, whether familiar with the story or not, are immediately aware of Oscar's fate.
Thief
Regardless of what one might think about the events and the aftermath, it's important that we know who Oscar Grant was, and that we know that on that day, in an event that probably could've been easily avoided, a mother lost her son, a girlfriend lost her boyfriend, and a daughter lost her father.
Iroquois
Ultimately, Fruitvale Station is nothing more than a well-crafted dramatisation of a tragic event where the first half feels a bit too much like padding (there's even a flashback thrown in) in order to get the film to feature length - it's almost a bit too contrived how virtually everything that hap....
