LUV

Name: LUV
Genre: Drama
Released: January 18, 2013
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Michael Rainey Jr.

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Indomina Releasing | Release Date: January 18, 2013 | R

Starring: Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Michael Rainey Jr.

Summary: An 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the uncle he idolizes in LUV, a poignant and gritty coming-of-age story featuring standout performances by Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Charles S. Dutton and newcomer Michael Rainey Jr. With his mother in rehab and his father out of theAn 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the uncle he idolizes in LUV, a poignant and gritty coming-of-age story featuring standout performances by Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Charles S. Dutton and newcomer Michael Rainey Jr. With his mother in rehab and his father out of the picture, young Woody Watson lives with his grandmother in suburban Baltimore and longs for his family to be reunited. His charismatic Uncle Vincent has recently returned home after eight years in prison, determined to straighten out his life by opening a high-end crab shack that will establish him as a solid citizen with a legitimate future. Soon Vincent finds himself pulled back into the violent world he is trying to escape- and Woody has to decide whether to follow his hero- or become his own man. (Indomina Releasing)… Expand

Director: Sheldon Candis

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 94 min

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Film.com Stephanie Zacharek

Feb 26, 2013

LUV is partly a story about drugs, guns and street crime, the legacies we pass on to our children despite our efforts to do otherwise. But it’s also about the things we pass on to our children with love: How to tie a necktie, hold a steering wheel, shake another person’s hand. And it’s about the hope that those things will win out in the end. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Jan 17, 2013

The big names in the cast add atmosphere in small doses, especially when Haysbert and Glover combine. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Jan 17, 2013

An uneven but strongly acted debut feature from co-writer and director Sheldon Candis. Read full review

Robert Koehler

Nov 4, 2012

Heartfelt and formulaic in equal measure. Read full review

Stephanie Merry

Jan 17, 2013

It's a shame that the plot proves to be such a head-scratcher when so many elements of the film seem promising. Read full review

Noel Murray

Jan 16, 2013

Candis and Wilson sandbag their actors with dialogue that's a mix of dull exposition and pulp clichés, and rarely natural-sounding or colorful. Read full review

McClatchy-Tribune News Service Roger Moore

Jan 30, 2013

The absurd turns the story takes to serve up streetwise and bloody "life lessons" for the kid will make any parent blanch and any movie lover roll his or her eyes. Read full review

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