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Film Discussion => The Vault => Topic started by: MacGuffin on November 13, 2007, 02:15:30 PM
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Trailer here. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/cityofmen/trailer/)
Release date: January 18th, 2008
Starring: Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha
Director: Paulo Morelli
Premise: In CITY OF MEN, producer Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardner) returns to the Brazilian favelas of his Academy Award-nominated film, City of God. Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past.
Is this an edited down version of the TV mini-series City of Men or is newly shot?
Quote from: Ravi on November 13, 2007, 02:40:13 PM
Is this an edited down version of the TV mini-series City of Men or is newly shot?
looks different.
movie based on the series inspired by the original movie.
Quote from: Pubrick on November 13, 2007, 02:46:41 PMmovie based on the series inspired by the original movie.
and now a musical.