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Overview
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Writer (WGA):
E. Max Frye (written by)
Release Date:
5 March 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
Misunderstood. Misplaced. Mismatched.
Plot:
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar...
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Plot Keywords:
Police
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Racism
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Holding Cell
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From improbable Fiction to today's Front Page Headlines
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Samuel L. Jackson | ... | Andrew Sterling |
 | Michael Lerner | ... | Phil Gillman |
 | Margaret Colin | ... | Judy Gillman |
 | Nicolas Cage | ... | Amos Odell |
 | Dabney Coleman | ... | Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver |
 | Brad Dourif | ... | Officer Donnie Donaldson |
 | Chelcie Ross | ... | Deputy Earl |
| I.M. Hobson | ... | Waldo Lake |
| Jeff Blumenkrantz | ... | Ernie the Cameraman |
 | Todd Weeks | ... | Deputy Stan |
 | Jordan Lund | ... | Deputy Riley |
 | Jodi Long | ... | Wendy Wong |
| Michael Burgess | ... | Black Reporter |
| Leonor Anthony | ... | Hispanic Reporter |
| Walter Raymond | ... | Anchorman |
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Runtime:
96 min | Germany:92 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:M |
South Korea:12 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG-13 (Certificate #32296) |
Finland:K-12 (1994) (VHS) |
Finland:S (2001) (DVD) |
Germany:12 (video premiere) |
Iceland:L |
Italy:T |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:13
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Continuity: Lenses in the Chief of Police's glasses during his interview after escaping from the house.
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Quotes:
Andrew Sterling:
What comes around, goes around.
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Movie Connections:
References Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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Soundtrack:
Beyond The Sea
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The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University's top expert on African-American history and culture, sounded a familiar note, the plot of AMOS AND ANDREW.
Samuel L. Jackson playing an internationally known author is presumed to be a burglar in his own home by passers-by. A siege of his home by local police caricatures the Cambridge police department.
The film's supporting cast of Michael Lerner and Margaret Colin as well as Dabney Coleman make this a light comic view of what could have become a raw, racial confrontation.
Leonard Maltin after commenting that this was like a 1960's Disney film, continues, "maybe they should have called this THAT DARN AFRO-American.
If Nicholas Cage played his role with more fervor the IMDb rating would be higher. But in view of current events, screenings should skyrocket.