Get on the Bus (1996) 6.7
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March. Director:Spike LeeWriter:Reggie Rock Bythewood |
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Get on the Bus (1996) 6.7
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March. Director:Spike LeeWriter:Reggie Rock Bythewood |
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Rick
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| De'aundre Bonds | ... |
Junior, aka 'Smooth'
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| Andre Braugher | ... |
Flip
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Thomas Jefferson Byrd | ... |
Evan Thomas Sr.
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| Gabriel Casseus | ... |
Jamal
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| Albert Hall | ... |
Craig
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| Hill Harper | ... |
Xavier
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| Harry Lennix | ... |
Randall
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| Bernie Mac | ... | ||
| Wendell Pierce | ... |
Wendell
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| Roger Guenveur Smith | ... |
Gary
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| Isaiah Washington | ... |
Kyle
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| Steve White | ... |
Mike
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| Ossie Davis | ... |
Jeremiah
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| Charles S. Dutton | ... |
George
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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 bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid off aircraft worker, a former Gang Banger, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a White bus driver, all make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, manhood, religion, politics, and race. Written by Robert Drake <robert.drake@index.com>
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.