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Doing Hard Time

  • Video
  • 2004
  • R
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
1.9K
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Sticky Fingaz, Boris Kodjoe, and Michael Kenneth Williams in Doing Hard Time (2004)
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A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.

  • Director
    • Preston A. Whitmore II
  • Writer
    • Preston A. Whitmore II
  • Stars
    • Boris Kodjoe
    • Michael Kenneth Williams
    • Sticky Fingaz
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.8/10
    1.9K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Preston A. Whitmore II
    • Writer
      • Preston A. Whitmore II
    • Stars
      • Boris Kodjoe
      • Michael Kenneth Williams
      • Sticky Fingaz
    • 25User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Boris Kodjoe
    Boris Kodjoe
    • Michael Mitchell
    Michael Kenneth Williams
    Michael Kenneth Williams
    • Curtis Craig aka: Durty Curt From Detroit
    • (as Michael K. Williams)
    Sticky Fingaz
    Sticky Fingaz
    • Eddie Mathematic
    Reagan Gomez-Preston
    Reagan Gomez-Preston
    • Rayvon Jones
    Jazsmin Lewis
    Jazsmin Lewis
    • Robin
    William L. Johnson
    William L. Johnson
    • Clever
    Marcello Thedford
    Marcello Thedford
    • Toure Smalls
    Emilio Rivera
    Emilio Rivera
    • Officer David Teal
    Chenoa Maxwell
    Chenoa Maxwell
    • Elise
    Charles Malik Whitfield
    Charles Malik Whitfield
    • Armand
    Patrice Fisher
    Patrice Fisher
    • Lt. Elaine Lodge
    Steven Bauer
    Steven Bauer
    • Det. Anthony Wade
    Giancarlo Esposito
    Giancarlo Esposito
    • Captain Pierce
    Michael Kimbrew
    Michael Kimbrew
    • Raymond Carver aka: Razor
    Kelsey Shaw McNeal
    • Gutter
    Tai Bennett
    Tai Bennett
    • Kool
    Kevon J. Beverly
    • Dane
    Adrianna Bell
    • Linda Shepard
    • Director
      • Preston A. Whitmore II
    • Writer
      • Preston A. Whitmore II
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    User reviews25

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    3ValleDk

    Below average

    This movie is not The worst, But nothing near good.

    In fact The acting and some of The scenes was just unnecessary or didnt have any impact on The movie. Nothing new to see here.
    5bakidarakari

    Not good enough

    The story is straight simple.no mystery.but the way they begin the movie,you would expect something unexpected would be unravelled but to my disappointment it is not.could not know the who was playing the protagonist.i thought story would focus on one character but gradually shifted to another.not good enough.
    3NemoAB

    Boring

    I just saw this movie and was bored beyond believe.

    The story is without any depth. A boy gets accidentally shot, even the involved drug dealers do not know how that happened. They get some years in prison for the drugs.

    The father of the dead boy is left behind, his wife has died too some time ago. All he got is his revenge. So he beats up a cop to get into jail to say hello to the two "muderers" of his son.

    The movie did not show the motivation of the characters. You see the father drinking alcohol, but you do not feel his pain. The idea of following the guys into jail is so absurd, that it leads to my low rating. To build a complicated weapon like a pistol out of paper instead of a simple one like a knife out of a piece of metal doesn't make any more sense to me.

    The situation in the jail is shown as it is like a normal average us-American jail, but I can only hope that it isn't.

    In the end I was left with the question what this was all about. I don't know.
    4Chrispearce2

    Poor script and acting

    The film was growing but I assume on purpose. Acting poor and script worse. I must questions the review's on this site. Whilst I know we all have differing opinions how any one can score this a 10 I'll never know. This film wasted the acting talents it had.
    6kosmasp

    Quite the good ones

    No pun intended of course. I was quite surprised ... I remembered the cover for this from back in the day when there were video stores (look it up) ... but what a cast this has. I reckon if you have to look up video store, you probably have no idea who I am talking about. Still if you see the actors in this, you may feel their screen presence.

    It's a shame then ... a shame because the story tries to be so many things. Tries to paint the people inside it as more than one shade of ... whatever color you want to see them in. It almost works too - because of the actors we have in this. But it really feels weird at best in its worst moments. Not sure if I would lay the blame entirely on the main actor - it seems the others do a better job than him ... whatever the case, quite the curiosity and quite the odd movie with cliches and things I did not think would happen ... quite the raw potential one can find here ...

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 23, 2004 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Sony Pictures
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Báo Thù Trong Ngục
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Destination Films
      • Preston Picture Company
      • Hard Time Productions
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    • Budget
      • $1,400,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 40m(100 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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