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Reggie Rock Bythewood (written by)
Release Date:
16 October 1996 (USA)
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On October 16, 1996, the one year anniversary of the Million Man March, Spike Lee invites you to lift your head, raise your voice, and...get on the bus.
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Get on the Bus follows several Black men on a cross country bus trip to the Million Man March. On the...
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2 wins
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5 nominations
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(8 articles)
He Said – He Said … Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
(From Scorecard Review. 20 November 2009, 7:18 AM, PST)
Spike Lee And Antoine Fuqua To Adapt 'Miss: Better Living Through Crime'
(From MTV Splash Page. 18 November 2009, 7:01 AM, PST)
(From Scorecard Review. 20 November 2009, 7:18 AM, PST)
Spike Lee And Antoine Fuqua To Adapt 'Miss: Better Living Through Crime'
(From MTV Splash Page. 18 November 2009, 7:01 AM, PST)
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Powerfully good
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Richard Belzer | ... | Rick |
 | De'aundre Bonds | ... | Junior, aka 'Smooth' |
 | Andre Braugher | ... | Flip |
| Thomas Jefferson Byrd | ... | Evan Thomas Sr. |
| Gabriel Casseus | ... | Jamal |
 | Albert Hall | ... | Craig |
 | Hill Harper | ... | Xavier |
 | Harry Lennix | ... | Randall |
 | Bernie Mac | ... | Jay |
| Wendell Pierce | ... | Wendell |
| Roger Guenveur Smith | ... | Gary |
 | Isaiah Washington | ... | Kyle |
 | Steve White | ... | Mike |
 | Ossie Davis | ... | Jeremiah |
 | Charles S. Dutton | ... | George |
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Rated R for language.
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120 min
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Released on 16 October 1996; approximately one year after the March itself.
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Errors in geography: While driving from South Los Angeles to Washington DC, the bus takes the Pasadena Freeway north from downtown LA. This freeway ends in Pasadena and is not the way one would travel across the country. Furthermore, a bus of this size would not be permitted on this freeway.
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References The Defiant Ones (1958)
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Cruisin'
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I just got done watching Spike Lee's "Get on the Bus" for the first time in about a year. The movie is done in a manner, I can't really describe it, that is very different from previous efforts by Spike Lee. The film follows a bus of about twenty men, all African-American, on a trip to Washington, D.C. to attend the Million March that was held there in 1995, about a year before this movie was made. We follow each of the men, including a father and son who have tethered together on a court order; a homophobic actor, who takes an immediate disliking to two homosexual men; a cop whose father was killed in the line of duty; a former gang member who is now a social services worker for troubled kids who he's trying to keep from living a life in gangs; an up and coming film student, who is video taping the event so he can show it to his future children; and an open-hearted elderly man who is going to the Million Man March simply because he wants to.
"Get on the Bus" is in my opinion, one of Spike Lee's best films. Each of the characters are unique in one a way or another.
A film that is not to be missed.