La deuxième chance

Original title: First Time Felon

TV Movie
1997
R
1h 50m

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Greg Yance is caught with over 5 grams drugs on him for trafficking. Prison is overcrowded and violent. As first time felon, he can get 120 days of boot camp instead of 5 years prison. Boot ... Read allGreg Yance is caught with over 5 grams drugs on him for trafficking. Prison is overcrowded and violent. As first time felon, he can get 120 days of boot camp instead of 5 years prison. Boot camp's tough.Greg Yance is caught with over 5 grams drugs on him for trafficking. Prison is overcrowded and violent. As first time felon, he can get 120 days of boot camp instead of 5 years prison. Boot camp's tough.

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6.8/10

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Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Omar Epps

Greg Yance

Delroy Lindo

Calhoun

Rachel Ticotin

McBride

Anthony 'Treach' Criss

Tyrone
(as Treach)

Justin Pierce

Eddie

Lucinda Jenney

Sharon

Jo D. Jonz

Pookie
(as Jo. D. Jónz)

Badja Djola

Disciple Leader

William Forsythe

Sorley

Robin Michelle McClamb

Greg's Mother
(as Robin Vaughn)

Tom Nowicki

Hogan

Pepa

Laverne
(as Sandra 'Pepa' Denton)

Kristen Jones

Crystal

Byron Altman

Pookie's Killer

Ed Grady

Johnny the Farmer

Deborah Hobart

Annie Hill

Gary Anthony Williams

Wallace

Sahr Ngaujah

Smiling Inmate
(as Michael Ngaujah)

Director
- Charles S. Dutton
Writer
- Daniel Therriault
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TC-4

Definitely worth watching once

I thought that this would be another preachy movie about black kids in jail and all their problems. I was wrong. This is about black kids will all sorts of problems in and out of jail but it is done very tightly and kept up my interest throughout. Omar Epps is getting a lot of well deserved credit for his acting but my thumbs up goes to the director Charles S. Dutton who I would like to see do other films. The music with the end credits was beautiful and sounded like the high class music that you hear with much bigger budget movies. I recommend that everyone see this movie once. You will not regret it.

9Eddiejoe

Transcends some of its own cliche's

I almost stopped watching when the inmates graduated but I hung in there and realized this movie was going beyond the cliches and attempting to show what few choices a gang banger with a record has. Very realistic.

10McGuireN

This is a wonderful movie!

I am so glad that I stumbled upon "First Time Felon" ... it is wonderful! Based solely on the title, I probably would have passed it by, assuming it wouldn't be "my kind of movie". But from the very beginning, I was totally drawn into this factual drama and thoroughly enjoyed the entire film. It's a good, solid story, enhanced by superb acting and excellent direction. I highly recommend it for anyone!

9Dann-7

Impressive

This will be my first comment posting due to the fact that this is first time I felt the need to do so. I caught this movie somewhere towards the beginning and within 10 minutes it had pulled me in to the point where I could not step away. At first I thought it was going to be a "prison movie" but turned out to be so much more. When the boot camp sequence ended the movie just got better and better. Omar Epps was tremendous in this movie and actually had me caring about the character ,which never happens to me to the point that it did here. I felt that I was watching someones life story and not fiction,and it turned out I was right after signing on here. Omar made this movie very believable and I would recommend you see this movie. I will watch it again.

6=G=

A worthy effort and an interesting but somewhat long watch.

More interesting than entertaining, "FTF" follows one inner-city street hood from his first time "bust" for drug dealing through one of the controversial "boot camp" style reform programs back into the streets where he is again faced with a choice between easy money or long unemployment lines. A journeyman film which runs a bit long with it's attempts to milk sympathy from the audience, "FTF" is a somewhat staged telling of a true story, a tour de force by a well cast Epps, and a seemingly serious attempt to give insights into the plight of the young inner-city black male with a criminal record.

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Trivia
Actor Clifton Powell is not credited for appearing in this film. Powell portrayed King, Yance's boss.

Quotes
Calhoun: You know you're the enemy, Yance. Oh, you don't know that, do you? I bet your black ass doesn't even know there's a war going on. I'm not talking about the war on crime and drugs, I'm talking about the war between black people and niggers. And that's what you are, Yance. You a motherfucking nigger. Let me tell you something. God... I *hate* niggers, but I love black people. Honest, hard-working, law-abiding black people. Niggers like you, you make me sick. It's no problem for a nigger to get his own people hooked on drugs, have the young girls on the corner turning five-dollar tricks. No problem for a nigger to shoot another nigger. No problem for a nigger to rob and steal from good, honest, hard-working black people. That's what they *want*. You're doing their work for them. What's so fucked up about that? You look at me and you call *me* an Uncle Tom? *You* are the Uncle Tom! You're a fucking joke. *You* are the real enemy of black people. White people look at me, it kills me that they see you, 'cause there's but one nigger in this here closet.