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My Brother (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Anthony Lover

Written By:
Anthony Lover

Actors:
Vanessa Williams ..... L'Tisha Morton
Tatum O'Neal ..... Erica Walters
Nashawn Kearse ..... Isaiah Morton
Christopher Scott ..... James Morton
Rodney Henry ..... Young Isaiah Morton
Donovan Jennings ..... Young James Morton
Fredro Starr ..... Pharaoh
Talent Harris ..... Joey - Comedy Store
Eric Michael Gillett ..... Adoption Administrator
Michael Luggio ..... Mr. Vincent
Brian Delate ..... Mr. Roland
Basil Pologianis ..... Amir
Nasser Metcalfe ..... Fazul
Danny Johnson ..... Reverend Franklin
Roger Shamas ..... Rasime

Synopsis:

An aspiring stand-up comic realizes precisely how precious the developmentally disabled brother he so frequently took for granted truly is in writer/director Anthony Lover's sensitive family drama. Poetically told by his terminally ill mother L'Tisha Morton (Vanessa Williams) that he and his developmentally disabled brother James (Christopher Scott) share a single soul despite having separate bodies, resentful thirty year-old Isaiah (Nashawn Kearse) longs to explore his stifled independence by testing his meddle on the comedy club circuit. When his dreams go up in smoke, Isaiah falls back on a courier job - initially assigned the task of delivering a mysterious package for an intimidating gang of Middle Eastern thugs. Later, when the package goes missing, the goons who hired Isaiah arrive at his apartment to rough up the frightened courier and his unsuspecting sibling. It's only then, when faced with the prospect of their own mortality, that Isaiah truly begins to comprehend the true depth of his brotherly bond with James.

My Brother is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic situation. Dying of tuberculosis, she desperately tries to get her two boys, eight and eleven at the time, adopted together. Finding that only Isaiah can be adopted. L'Tisha makes the only choice she feels she can make; creating an unbreakable bond of love between the boys, and hoping that bond will get them through life. Her prayers are answered as the boys overcome impossible odds on their way to adulthood, staying as close as ever as young men dealing with life's obstacles.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 June, 2014.