Across the Line

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Across the Line (2016)

08/01/2017 (US) Drama 1h 28m

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Out of the approximately 600 players in the National Hockey League, thirty are Black. Mattie Slaughter, a hockey phenom from the rural Black community of North Preston, wants to make it thirty-one. To reach his goal, Mattie needs to keep his nose clean and avoid trouble. Hard to do though, when you go to a school where racism taints every interaction, your older brother is a hustler and you’re crushing on a girl who’s already hooked up.

Director X.

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Floyd Kane

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Stephan James

Mattie Slaughter
Sarah Jeffery

Jayme Crawley
Shamier Anderson

Carter Slaughter
Lanette Ware

Velma
Steven Love

John
Denis Theriault

Todd
Kim Parkhill

Police Officer
Cara Ricketts

Lori Downey
Hugh Thompson

Len Jacobsen
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A review by Dan_Tebasco

40%

Written by Dan_Tebasco on April 16, 2017

Starts out alright but as a whole a rather lackluster film with a oversimplified view on racism.

Directed by a director who refers to himself as 'Director X' who after a bit of research was a Hype Williams trained musicvideo director previously going under the name of 'Little X' with his most famous effort before getting into film was Justin Bieber's Boyfriend video.

But 'Little X' didn't sound like a serious enough name to direct films and short films so he changed it to 'Director X' instead.

Anyhow, I would honestly not have thought he was a musicvideo-director because they tend t... read the rest.

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