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List Price: $5.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 32244
Released: January 8, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Sometimes life throws a curve ball, a fork in the road, or a wall between you and what you want. For Socrates Fortlow, life keeps getting in the way, but nothing stays in the way of a man with his mission. Socrates is going to make it - his way on his terms - and if you aren't part of the solution, then you know where you stand. If you're a killer terrorizing the neighborhood, you'll have to deal with him first. If you're a beautiful woman who deserves more attention, attention will be paid. If you're a witness to murder and you need protection, you're staying alive in his hands. Life's questions can be hard, but the answers are east. When it comes to trouble, you look for the man who's still standing. Because the way he's fighting for his life is the way you want him fighting for yours.
DVD Features:
Biographies
Other:Chapter Selections
Always Outnumbered Reviews:
Laurence Fishburne III first film was 1975's "Cornbread, Earl and Me" 
2009-11-10 - Some have reported the 'Apocalypse Now' was his first film, but that's erroneous, his first role was that of a small boy that witnessed a police shooting of an innocent man, 'Cornbread' played by former LA Lakers star, Jamal Wilkes. As far as the review of Always outnumbered, always outgunned goes, all I have to say is, FANTASTIC. Mr. Fishburne does not disappoint and delivers, big time!
Favorite
2009-06-29 - I love this movie, in fact this is one of my favorites. The movie came in a timely fashion and was very please with the quality and condition. Thank you.
A superb strength-of-character film
2009-01-03 - Socrates Fortlow, imprisoned 17 years for murder, paroles to a depressed section of L.A. determined to harness the demon of his imprisonment: his anger. Despite being tempted and almost yielding to the demon, he manages to become a community asset. His strength, compassion and controlled rage encompass my favorite performance by Lawrence Fishburne. A must-see inspirational film exceptionally performed.
Delivery and Content Excellent
2008-11-17 - This movie was shipped and recieved in a timely fashion. The movie itself is a worthwhile interpretation of an ex-convict's, Socrates Fortlow, efforts to reenter society post-incarceration.
For anyone who knows LA and at least feels condemed at times, you'll relate to this film.
2008-04-07 - You don't have to be a hardened convict to relate to Socrates Fortlow, and that's what makes author Walter Mosely and his fictional character of this name, perfectly captured in this film by actor Lawrence Fishburn and director Michael Apted, so intriguing. By midway through the film, you find yourself admiring Fortlow, despite him being unemployable and living in a horrible, seemingly abandoned home in a back alley, in South Central Los Angeles.
Take it from someone who once worked at a grocery store; The scenes where Fortlow harasses an upscale grocery store for employment are not only admirable and humorous, but also beyond realistic (the elevator muzak version of "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog").
I also think this film captures an aspect of LA which often goes overlooked, how lonely of a place it really is.
The score is brilliant. A perfect late '90s, saddened, "neo-soul" sound.
Oh, Bill Cobbs; This film is another exhibit that he is the most underrated American actor of our time. I don't know if this film would be the same without him.
