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Synopsis: This modern crime drama uses the names of the homonymous Shakespeare play's main characters which inspired its plot. White London Metropolitan Police commissioner Sinclair Carver promises to maintain law and order and further racial integration by recruiting and promoting black and Asian officers, but is taped in the lavatory by a tabloid reporter telling his assistant commissioner Ben Jago there is no black with a brain as big as his dick, and is thus forced to resign. When the death of the black Billy Coates in custody causes racial unrest, John Othello, the only authoritative black police officer, manages to prevent riots by pointing to the press and promising to solve the case; the government names him successor to Carver over his friend Jago's head. The ambitious Ben doesn't show his furious disappointment, but must have his revenge. His plots starts by making sure racists harass Othello's white wife Desdemona, so he can have her 'well guarded' by smooth white superintendent Micha
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Geoffrey Sax
Production: Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC)
  12 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Year:
2001
100 min
3,081 Views


all right? Relax.

What's the deal?

I'm gone for a couple of hours

and you're already

taking my girl, Big Mike?

- What's up, dude?

- You get right home and get some rest.

I will, man.

What's up, baby?

I was worried about you.

You were the one

who got hurt, stupid.

No, you don't understand.

I was worried that

if I hurt myself,

who was going to take care

of you over there at Duke?

Oh, right, right.

You're still going to play

"Big House" with me, though, right?

Hey, stop it with that.

Then you better

stop getting hurt.

- I love you.

- I love you too.

You kids need to get back

to the dorms. Let's go, Hugo.

I'm going to give

a shout at the boys, all right?

- Mike.

- Hey, man.

- We did our thing today, bro'.

- Yeah, we did good.

What's up, Em?

How are you doing?

Hugo.

Thought we lost you

there for a second, bro.

I ain't going nowhere.

But did we take it to them or what?

You took it to them by yourself.

You know that, player.

You're coming to

that party off campus?

Yeah, I need to get a ride

with my dad, though.

All right, man.

Don't take too long.

Later, Hugo.

Come on, don't worry.

He'll get there.

Yeah, Roger.

We've got

plans tonight, man.

When I passed out,

I think I had a vision.

Have you ever ridden on the handlebars

on one of your friends' bikes before?

Yeah.

Well, I used to ride on the bars

and try to close my eyes.

I could never do it.

It's some scary sh*t,

cause you've got...

to try to trust

the other person not to crash.

You're tripping me out

right now.

I feel like I can

close my eyes with you.

Look...

we're 18,

and personally,

I'm not trying to get married by some

Elvis impersonator in Vegas, but...

I figured maybe we could pretend

for a while, you know?

That is the sweetest thing

I've ever heard.

Oh, yeah!

Now we're feeling good,

huh?

Go get them, tiger.

Now go out there and

you find that girl.

- Time to pull some weeds.

- Just for the record,...

why am I

doing this again?

Because this is

how you get Desi's attention.

Now get your honky

ass in gear.

It's about team work.

Hey.

- Excuse us, Roger.

- Excuse you?

We're talking.

What, are you diagramming

some basketball plays?

What did you say?

I don't care if your father

owns the whole f***ing school.

Sh*t. Excuse me.

Roger!

Take it easy, big guy.

- Not so tough, now, are you?

- Hey, Rog!

What are you talking about?

Stop it!

Your shooting ability

isn't helping you now, is it?

Take it easy, pal.

Back it off.

Stop it, man. Come on.

That's enough.

Oh my God, Roger.

You're bleeding.

Sh*t.

So, this lad loses

a pint of blood,

and you guys have got nothing

to say for yourselves.

It was an accident, Pop.

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Andrew Davies

Andrew Wynford Davies (born 20 September 1936) is a Welsh writer of screenplays and novels, best known for House of Cards and A Very Peculiar Practice, and his adaptations of Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch and War & Peace. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002. more…

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