The Corner
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend On the front lines of americas drug war one family is living in the crossfire. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 01/06/2009 Starring: Tk Carter Sean Nelson Run time: 360 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Charles S Dutton… Product details and pricing info |
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45 Customer Reviews Posted
- Powerful-Brutal-Incredible-A Must For All Teens
- As a certified Substance abuse counselor, I show THE CORNER once a year to the 70+ teenagers that I work with. In the three years I've been showing it I have not had a single teen who wasn't moved by and impressed with it. It's the only film i show that they want to see over and over again.
As a recovering addict I can attest to the film's accuracy. It's gritty, it's painful, it's the reality of many inner city neighborhoods and the real end result to addiction.
As a tool for working with substance using teens, this film provides a plethora of topics to process and discuss.
I cannot speak too highly of it. - 2005-09-10, 5 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Not Just Another Evil Dope Flick
- I never seen this before getting the DVD, but had references through the DVD's and book on The Wire. As I started to watch the first eppisode I immeadiatly thought I made a mistake. I thought this was just going to be one of those same old formula flicks about drug addiction that just keep showing a person starting as an non addict and eventually falling so damn low and hard that I generally feel worse for seeing it than entertained. The Corner does show a lot of the ugliness that surrounds a community of drug addicts, but there's far more to it than that.
The creators of this mini series did an excellent job of showing the many sides surounding addiction. Primarilly they showed the addicts not as some no good for nothing scum that doesn't deseve a second look, but as real people living through daily situations like we all do, but with the proverbial "Monkey On Their Back" besides. The many layers of this mini series really makes this a work of art, and very entertaining to boot. - 2005-08-20, 6 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Excellent Movie!!
- This movie was excellent! This is one of the best mini-series I seen since Queen (The Alex Haley movie series). The actors were outstanding and convincing. I really appreciate the authenticity of the movie. The entire movie was shot in the actually neighborhood from the book. I knew that a television series would come from this book (The Wire).
- 2005-08-05, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- BIG-UPS 2 CHARLES S. DUTTON "I KNEW FROM "ROC" THAT U HAD IT IN U"...(THIS IS BLEAK REALITY)>I LOVE U RON B./TONY<
- YES, THE REALITIES OF LIFE WILL MOSTLY BE "BLEAK"... ESPECIALLY WHEN YOUR ATMOSPHERE IS 1 LIKE baltimore-CITY, Md!! I WAS IN b-CITY ON FAYETTE STREET JUST YESTERDAY & I CAN VOUCH 4 THE FACT THAT IT'S A GROTESQUE SCENE... BEING BORN & RAISED FROM NEWARK {BRICK-CITY}, "NEW JERSEY" 2 JERSEY-CITY (CHILLTOWN JC), "I CAN RELATE BABY"!!!... OUT OF ALL THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES, I HAVE 2 TELL THAT IT WAS "MOSTLY" DRUGS & cRoOkEd COPS" THAT DESTROYED "THE DECENT-LIVABLE-TOWN OF MINE"!!... FROM 94' JERSEY AMONG OTHER PLACES HAS BEEN TARNISHED!! >{NEVER-THE-LESS IT'S WHERE I COME FROM THAT HAS MADE ME THE WOMAN THAT I'M 2DAY}
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*I NEVER LIKED maryland ESPECIALLY b-COUNTY, BUT I WILL DEFINENTLY SUPPORT "CHARLES DUTTONS' "THE CORNER"!!! [I'M GLAD THAT IT'S HERE]``` *UNLIKE MANY OTHER REVIEWERS I HAPPEN 2 AGREE WITH "ALL" OF THESE REVIEWERS 4 "THE CORNER"! I BELIEVE THE REASON WHY SO MANY VIEWERS ENJOYED & WERE IN TOUCH WITH "THE CORNER", IS SIMPLY BECAUSE NO MATTER THE RACE OR ECONOMICAL-STATUS YOU EITHER HAVE A RELATIVE ON SUBSTANCE OR IS STRUGGLING WITH SUBSTANCE-ABUSE THEMSELVES!!!...[SO IN THOSE WAYS OR MORE MOST CAN RELATE]!!!! *I MUST COMMEND "RON BRICE"(TAR/ FRESH), "T.KENT CARTER" (RAGE IN HARLEM), "SEAN NELSON" (FRESH), KHANDI ALEXANDER (Poetic Justice/What's Love Gotta Do with It) & LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST THE VISIONARY WHO MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE, "CHARLES S. DUTTON" (SPIKE LEEs':GET ON THE BUS/LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME)...
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***PEOPLE WOULD ASK ME DID I WATCH THE 1ST EPISODES & I SAID "HELL-NO" BECAUSE IT WAS A DOCUMENTARY OF WEST balto., [SO I DIDN'T WANT 2 SUPPORT IT 4 THAT REASON] *SO I GOT WORD THAT *RON BRICE* HAD A ROLE AS TONY, ALSO THAT MY MAN CHARLES D. WOULD BE THE DIRECTOR {AFTER THAT I HAD 2 WATCH}!!!! %%%%{RON I LOVE YOU DEARLY "BABY"}%%%% *WELL OF COURSE I WANTED HIM 2 HAVE A MAIN-CHARACTER, BUT ONCE "AGAIN" THEY SLEEP ON HIS' TALENT >Yet Again?????D A M N?????
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IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE WATCHING "SEAN NELSON" COME UP SINCE "FRESH"!!!! THERE'S A REASON 4 THE SEASON & "THE CORNER" WAS MEANT 2 BE ON THE "BIG-SCREENS" -YOU KNOW!! {THANKS 4 GIVING THIS STORY A CHANCE}+++++++1 LUV++++++++ - 2005-07-27, 0 of 22 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Captivating
- This mini-series is probably the best I have ever seen. The acting, and authenticity of the story is very compelling. I could not stop watching any episode, as each one was so intriguing.
- 2005-01-12, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
