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Synopsis: A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
Director(s): Phillip Noyce
Production: Focus Features
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
PG-13
Year:
2006
101 min
$4,291,965
Website
169 Views


a boss man now.

A foreman.

Precious, we can't afford it.

Keep your finger off the trigger

until you are ready to fire.

Okay, ja.

I got him, Pa.

Next time keep your eyes open. Yeah.

All right,

pick up the weapon.

No, no, no.

Always at the target.

Put your weight

on your front foot.

I can't.

Come on, come on!

Run, run, run!

I'm going to fetch him.

Maybe at Christmas

when I get my bonus.

Maybe at Christmas

we'll be dead.

Hey, don't talk like that.

I'm going away.

Tell me you'll miss me.

Come on.

Like a hole in my head.

Come with me

down paradise road

This way please

I'll carry your load

This you must believe

Katie, you may be

in a position, God forbid,

when knowing how to shoot

could save your life.

Ja. I mean... We've got to

look out for robbers.

Susan's mum and dad

were killed in the night.

It's not the robbers

we worry about.

It's the terrorists.

The communists.

This family is a target.

I hate this.

All this talk of guns

and killing.

Anna.

Enough!

Thank you.

Patrick.

Precious, we beat the Spartans!

We made it to the finals.

Secunda Lions.

Forwards ever.

Backwards never.

Oh, Precious, phone the plant

for me. Tell them I'm sick.

Patrick? Who's that?

I heard a girl there,

Patrick. Who is that?

Precious, it's a woman

waiting to use the phone.

I am warning you!

Precious,

stop your nonsense.

Phone Secunda.

Tell them I'm sick.

Precious?

Precious? Precious?

Pass the ball!

Pass! Sixpence, pass!

Go, Sixpence, go!

Go, Sixpence! Go!

Goal!

No.

No.

My father left when I was 10.

And I never saw him again.

Its better he doesn't know.

Try to

visit again soon.

Please.

It's hard.

I'll come when I can.

Oh, wow!

What's that?

Fire, man! It's fire!

Sh*t, man!

Watch your mouth.

I hope it's the school.

It's Secunda.

Earlier this week, Minister

of Police, Mr. Louis le Grange,

warned that South Africa is in a

virtual state of war... Is it safe?

Day or night,

the plant keeps going.

What?

Bye-bye.

Bye.

The plant here in Secunda

uses a revolutionary technique

to convert coal into

oil and petrol. Bye, Ma.

Almost half of South Africa's

cars use the fuel

processed in this

particular plant.

Perhaps it's too early

to speculate,

but if this is confirmed

as a terrorist attack

it'll be

the largest sabotage...

Come on, arms up.

You think you're

so clever, huh?

You and your

bloody terrorists!

...two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight,

nine, ten, eleven, twelve,

thirteen, fourteen.

I think it makes nine.

Okay. Count.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten...

I've done nothing!

Come on.

Chamusso's

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Shawn Slovo

Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood in South Africa under apartheid. She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.In the late 1970s she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films Raging Bull and The King of Comedy. She also made the screenplay for Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight. Slovo currently lives in London and often works for Working Title Films. Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer. more…

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