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Twilight: Los Angeles

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Twilight: Los Angeles reviews
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10.0 User Score:

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Based on 6 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Anna Deveare Smith

Directed by: Marc Levin

Release Date:
Theatrical: September 22, 2000

Running Time: 76 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not rated

Starring Anna Deavere Smith

The film adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith's acclaimed play, Twilight: Los Angeles presents Smith's one-woman/multi-voiced portrait of the violent aftermath in Los Angeles triggered by the acquittal in 1992 of four police officers in the beating of Rodney King. (Offline Releasing)

What The Critics Said

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75

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Forces the audience to rethink the riots in new and difficult ways, to find empathy and revulsion where it might not have known they existed.

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70

Village Voice Jessica Winter

Smith's work is a means of cauterizing wounds that have not even begun to heal...certainly not across a continent in Giuliani's New York.

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70

TV Guide Ken Fox

Part documentary, part one-woman quick-change show and part sociological investigation, this is enthralling theater with a purpose.

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63

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

When it was first performed in theaters a couple of years after the L.A. riots took place, Twilight: Los Angeles must have been very powerful. Unfortunately, director Mark Levin's filmed version lacks that impact.

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60

The New York Times Dave Kehr

The resulting compromise does not produce a perfect film, but it is a fine record of a classic production and an important reminder of an event that has not stopped echoing in American culture.

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50

Variety Dennis Harvey

The camera's closer scrutiny doesn't flatter this unique theatrical reportage.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Latasha C. gave it a 10:
As a former resident of Los Angeles, I was there when the riots of '92 sparked in the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. I saw Ms. Smith's performance on this PBS special and I want to commend her on a portraying all of the characters in a uniqueness that no one else could ever do. Absolutely outstanding!!

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