愛 LUV（美國/2013年/犯罪/劇情）
LUV
語言：英語
11歲孤兒Woody Watson住在巴爾的摩，夢想過著更好的生活。他不確定母親在哪裡，有人說她可能在北卡羅來納州試著戒毒。Woody把叔叔Vincent當作爸爸看待，服刑8年甫出獄的Vincent曾經是街頭毒販，現在他想重新做人。某天，Vincent經過Woody的學校，決定帶他出去見識見識。Vincent相中一間法拍倉庫，打算買下來開餐廳，但銀行不肯貸款給他。過去的非法勾當再次向他招手，Vincent回頭找從前老大FISH幫忙。原本積極樂觀的一天，最後以暴力收場，Woody必須決定要追隨叔叔的腳步，或是走出自己的路。
其他:
《愛 LUV》是短片導演薛爾頓坎迪斯首部長片，饒舌歌手凡夫俗子飾演前科犯Vincent，小麥可雷尼飾演視他為偶像的11歲侄子Woody。
導演：薛爾頓坎迪斯
製片：傑森麥克伯曼，麥克詹森，戈登拜傑洛尼奇，達塔里透納，喬伊紐頓，德瑞克達德利
製作公司：LUV Films 5, Gordon Bijelonic/Datari Turner Films, Hollywood Studios
演員：凡夫俗子（《刺客聯盟》、《巧克力甜心》、《魔鬼終結者：未來救贖》），小麥可雷尼（《白宮第一管家》），丹尼斯赫柏特（《鍋蓋頭》、《烈火悍將》）丹尼葛洛佛（《證人》、《紫色姐妹花》、《2012》），查爾斯達頓，馬克約翰傑佛瑞斯，蘿內特麥基，麥克威廉斯
影評：
「薛爾頓坎迪斯首部作品，以巴爾的摩黑幫為背景，優秀選角彌補了劇情漏洞，饒舌歌手凡夫俗子挑大樑帶來精彩演出。」-《綜藝報》
「新人小麥可雷尼及凡夫俗子飾演一對叔侄，以巴爾的摩為背景的成長電影，丹尼斯赫柏特飾演黑幫大佬。」-《綜藝報》
花絮：
凡夫俗子在片中說圖帕克是史上最偉大的饒舌樂手。很多人不知道，圖帕克曾在本片背景城市巴爾的摩居住過。-IMDB
LUV(USA/2013/CRIME/DRAMA)
LUV
Language: English
Eleven-year-old WOODY WATSON is a timid Baltimore orphan who dreams of a better life --and his absent mother who may or may not be in North Carolina fighting drug addiction. Woody also reveres his uncle VINCENT as the father figure he never had. A street hustler and former drug dealer, Vincent's fresh off an eight-year stint in prison and wants a new direction. When Vincent bypasses his nephew's school one day and offers to show Woody how a man handles his business, Woody jumps at the opportunity to join his uncle on a field trip of life lessons. With a foreclosed warehouse property, Vincent plans to open his own crab shack restaurant. However, when he is denied a bank loan the legitimate way, the temptations of Vincent's old life working for Baltimore crime boss MR. FISH return to haunt him. A day once bright with optimism quickly spirals downward into a world of violence. Coming of age all too fast by day's end, Woody starts to doubt his hero and ultimately must decide where he stands.
Others:
‘LUV’ marks the feature debut of short filmmaker Sheldon Candis and stars rapper Common as Vincent, an ex-con and former gangster who becomes a role model for 11-year-old Woody (Michael Rainey Jr), whose mother has disappeared.
Director: Sheldon Candis
Producers: Jason Michael Berman, Michael Jenson, Gordon Bijelonic,
Datari Turner, Joel Newton, Derek Dudley
Production Co: LUV Films 5, Gordon Bijelonic/Datari Turner Films, Hollywood Studios
Cast: Common (Wanted, Brown Sugar, New Year's Eve, Terminator:Salvation), Michael Rainey Jr. (The Butler),
Dennis Haysbert( Jarhead, Heat), Danny Glover (Witness, The Color Purple, 2012), Charles S. Dutton, Marc John Jefferies, Lonette McKee
Michael Kenneth Williams
Reviews:
- A well-chosen cast papers over some of the plausibility gaps in Sheldon Candis’ debut feature, set in the Baltimore crime world and showcasing a magnetic lead performance from the rapper Common. – THR
- Talented young newcomer Michael Rainey Jr. and Common play an impressionable kid and his badass uncle in this Baltimore-set coming-of-age story, which also features Dennis Haysbert as a commanding villain. - THR
Trivia:
- When Common says Tupac was the greatest rapper, it's a little known fact that Tupac use to live in Baltimore, the town in which this movie is filmed. – IMDB
