Riot

Film per la TV
1996
R
1h 35min

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Luke Perry, Mario Van Peebles, and Melvin Van Peebles in Riot (1996)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaIn April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories. In Gold Mountain, Jeff Lee and... Leggi tuttoIn April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories. In Gold Mountain, Jeff Lee and his parents run Good Neighbor Liquor in South Central L.A. Theirs is an Asian family of "... Leggi tuttoIn April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories. In Gold Mountain, Jeff Lee and his parents run Good Neighbor Liquor in South Central L.A. Theirs is an Asian family of "old world" values at odds with a modern world-cultures that are about to clash in ways the... Leggi tutto

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Dante Basco

Jeff Lee (segment "Gold Mountain")

Kieu Chinh

Mrs. Lee (segment "Gold Mountain")

Mako

Mr. Lee (segment "Gold Mountain")

Alexis Cruz

Carlos (segment "Caught in the Fever")

Yelba Zoe McCourt

Iris (segment "Caught in the Fever")
(as Yelba Osorio)

John Ortiz

Ciaco (segment "Caught in the Fever")

Douglas Spain

Manuel (segment "Caught in the Fever")

Luke Perry

Boomer (segment "Empty")

Peter Dobson

Chaz (segment "Empty")

Mario Van Peebles

Turner (segment "Homecoming Day")

Melvin Van Peebles

Vernon (segment "Homecoming Day")

Cicely Tyson

Maggie (segment "Homecoming Day")

Derek Basco

Lyle (segment "Gold Mountain")

Phillip Wong

Phil (segment "Gold Mountain")
(as Phil Wong)

Ernie Lee Banks

Wino (segment "Gold Mountain")

Judy Kerr

Mrs. White (segment "Gold Mountain")

Steven Meek

Yuppie Guy (segment "Gold Mountain")

Dwayne Barnes

Black Customer (segment "Gold Mountain")
(as Dwayne L. Barnes)

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8bse-1

Tries very hard and pretty much succeeds.

This film tries its hardest to deal with the LA Riots from all sides. it

kind of fails a bit but mostly it's a great film. It's got Melvin Van

Peebles in it, what mroe do you want? A proper late night TV film that I have now seen 3 times just by

chance. Mario Van P is his usual SUPERHAM self and Luke Perry

puts in a good performance as a "cop/Vanilla Ice from Cool as Ice

lookalike" and it's all good fun in a hard hitting issues based film

kind of way. I like the way they incorporated news footage. That works.

The latino quarter of the film is the weakest cos the main kid sucks

the proverbials in a major way.

Watch it, it's good.

ajason91356

disturbing, but very good.

I just watched this movie and I found it very disturbing, but at the same time loved it. I especially enjoyed the performance of the Asian actor Dante Basco, and the chemistry between he and his parents. Where most young male characters playing the, "angry youth" role tend to play it one dimensional, Dante was colorful, emotional, and In the words of Bill Clinton, "I could feel his pain." The most heartfelt scene in the movie, was when the Asian Father Played by Mako, held his son telling him to stand by his side, they are about to lose everything. The second and third short was not as compelling as the first, But the forth and last short made up for the lack of the middle two. It was great how each short interlooped with each other, and the added actual news footage of the riots. I could watch this movie time and time again.

8*Prometheus*

Excellent merging of characters

This movie is about the L.A. riots stemming from the Rodney King incident. The movie is about how the four predominate races interact with each other during these riots. The whites, blacks, hispanics, and asians are the races involved. The way the director mingles the characters together at certain times is outstanding. For example in one scene you see 3 hispanics arguing, and in the background you see a police officer being surrounded by many people, and he is defending himself. Later, on the police officer's skit at the end he is in the same scene. A must see.

10Taz750

Presents all views of the riots

It was a very good film in the way that it showed how the riots affected people from every perspective... the police officers being under fear of losing their life, the chinese boy afraid of losing the market store for which his family worked so hard, the poor latino boy who is carried away by the urge to provide his family with luxuries and the black man who is trying to survive the racial tensions. It's a very good movie and takes no side but rather shows how each race and each person in the situation suffered

2chazekua

Heat Wave (1990) (TV) is more entertaining and far more enlightening

Heat Wave, TNT's movie about the 1965 Watts Riots is a far better film than Riot and handles many similar themes far more successfully. Riot, on the hand does a lot of yakking but little is really talked about. In trying to say "everything" about the causes and concerns that lead to the L.A. Riots, it ends up becoming totally unfocused and rather tedious. This is too important a subject to be given such short shrift and lack of real insight.