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Kelsey Scott (writer)
Release Date:
24 February 2004 (USA)
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There is only loyalty or betrayal. Nothing in between.
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Motive is an edgy thriller that centers around Emery Simms, a highly educated and successful business...
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4 nominations
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African-American soap erotic thriller
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Vivica A. Fox | ... | Constance Simms |
 | Shemar Moore | ... | Emery Simms |
 | Golden Brooks | ... | Allannah James |
 | Sean Blakemore | ... | Brandon |
 | Joe Torry | ... | Derrick Woods |
 | Victoria Rowell | ... | Detective Pierce |
 | Mel Jackson | ... | Detective Morgan |
 | William L. Johnson | ... | RAy |
 | Caryn Ward | ... | Gwendolyn |
 | Keshia Knight Pulliam | ... | Letrice |
| Brian Hite | ... | Kenneth Stroud |
 | David Collier | ... | Reyes |
| Candice Carbo | ... | Anna |
| Antwan Mills | ... | Stan |
 | Mike Pniewski | ... | Simon (as Mike Piniewski) |
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Motive (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for strong sexual content, language and some violence.
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USA:87 min
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Continuity: When Allannah gets kicked out of the dorm room, she pushes the door out to leave the room (an outward swinging door). The next shot from the outside of the room shows her exiting the room with the door closing toward her as an inward swinging door.
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| Ending question | dgave |
| Rowell ever do nudity ? | jonnsteinbeck |
| Golden Brooks | e_blakely |
| Does this movie have a soundtrack to it? | m_pruitt70 |
| Sequel | britgin |
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This film tries to combine several genres, in a quite a strange mix. The plot happens in Atlanta, and involves a businessman and restaurant owner married un-happily apparently with a charity organization leader, involved in all type of dubious activities, including stock market fraud, murder, and a steamy extra-marital affair. The pace and the moral approach is of a 70s TV soap opera, combined with a 90s erotic thriller. Nothing too bad, but nothing original or really interesting either. Characters are one-dimensional, their physical appearance is all that counts. The plot twist towards the end works quite well, or it worked for me in any case.
The odd thing is that all main characters, without any exception are Afro-American. This does not work in my opinion - the American society as I know it is multi-racial, and reversed segregation does not work, not on life, and not on screen. Why? Is this meant to be a revenge to the all segregated approach of film making in the 40s or 50s? Well, it does not succeed to be more than a DVD rental minor film, and the reason is probably that it never tries to be more.
Not to be mis-understood, Afro-American film-making can be great (mentioning just Spike Lee is kind of trivial) but only when it approaches life and minority causes in a realistic and good taste manner. This is not the case here. 4 out of 10 on my personal scale.