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| Roadshow Film Distributors | Release Date: March 27, 1992 |
Starring:
Agatha Hurle, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brendan Deary, Guy Witcher, Nigel Ivy, Nomadlozi Kubheka, Tracy Brooks Swope, Winston Mangwarara
Summary:
An English boy, living in Africa during World War II, through his boxing prowess, becomes a symbol of hope, in a time of war.
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The best thing about The Power of One is that it works as a history lesson. Avildsen and his writer, Robert Mark Kamen, have managed to simplify and sort out the players and their points of view in a way no other film about South Africa has done. It makes painfully clear just how deep the problems run, and how their solution will invariably require an almost evolutionary change in everyone. [27 March 1992]
It would have taken another director (the late David Lean, for instance) and a better script to make this movie into the serious, full-blooded epic it wants to be. But Power of One succeeds in entertaining and getting audiences to think about the tragedy of apartheid; flaws and all, it's still worth seeing. [31 March 1992, p.E6]
IF SINCERITY were the basis on which movies were judged, The Power of One would be a great one. But real movies, like real life, have to provide satisfaction over a wider range, and this long, dry, coming-of-age tale about South Africa falls short. [29 March 1992, p.12C]
The Power of One plays like a plot-heavy South African fairy tale with one too many big, bad wolves. [27 March 1992, p.4D]
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