Kiers77

This movie is a sleeper that merits wide repeat viewing. Pleasant to watch, authentic acting, and counter to near continuous one-dimensional stereotyping of minorities by Hollywood itself since the 1980s. Harvey Keitel puts in a fantastic and humble performance. Richard Pryor's intelligence and wit shines through in every scene he's in. Wish the Hollywood studio system would watch it's prior works and learn something.

I thought the script was flawed and shallow. One dimensional cliché of a truly great subject. Thurgood Marshall was given short shrift. We need more than a one dimensional caricature to make a movie. Doesn't pass the sniff test. In short this was a quick movie-factory production-line job, as it were. Why? Is it because October is low season?

There is no need to hate this movie. It's quite enjoyable by itself. It doesn't require any heavy intellectual digging or background instruction manual to appreciate. Plus, it's quirky comedy is being taken as mysterious and dark. Please! Just enjoy it and laugh. The humor is irksome but funny. It's like a bit of Shakespeare. It has meaningful plot and fun dialogs. The guy who wrote the review centering on the Draughtsman's "arrogance and innocence "(a dangerous combo!) had it spot on, and this personality flaw is key to the plot. Thoroughly enjoyable and funny and clever. Architects everywhere, TAKE COVER! LOL.