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  • 2013
  • R
  • Indomina Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2013
  • R
  • Indomina Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary An 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the uncle he idolizes in LUV, a poignant and gritty coming-of-age story featuring standout performances by Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Charles S. Dutton and newcomer Michael Rainey Jr. With his mother in rehab and his father out of th...

Directed By: Sheldon Candis

Written By: Justin Wilson, Sheldon Candis

  • 2013
  • R
  • Indomina Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2013
  • R
  • Indomina Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m

LUV

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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Summary An 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the uncle he idolizes in LUV, a poignant and gritty coming-of-age story featuring standout performances by Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Charles S. Dutton and newcomer Michael Rainey Jr. With his mother in rehab and his father out of th...

Directed By: Sheldon Candis

Written By: Justin Wilson, Sheldon Candis

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 21 Critic Reviews
52
29% Positive
6 Reviews
67% Mixed
14 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
6 Reviews
67% Mixed
14 Reviews
5% Negative
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83
Feb 26, 2013
LUV is partly a story about drugs, guns and street crime, the legacies we pass on to our children despite our efforts to do otherwise. But it’s also about the things we pass on to our children with love: How to tie a necktie, hold a steering wheel, shake another person’s hand. And it’s about the hope that those things will win out in the end.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 16, 2013
Here is a film about African Americans that sidesteps all the usual, hopeful cliches and comments on how one failed generation raises another.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 17, 2013
Both for good and for ill, LUV has a film-school feeling about it, and channels a legacy of fatalistic American crime cinema that includes "Mean Streets" and "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 17, 2013
It's a shame that the plot proves to be such a head-scratcher when so many elements of the film seem promising.
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50
Jan 15, 2013
Even if some of them are playing hackneyed gangster-film types, the strength of the actors makes it almost possible to forgive the formulaic plotting and artificially movie-ish developments. Candis and Justin Wilson's screenplay stretches credibility thinner and thinner as the story advances.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 17, 2013
The first half of the movie is painfully tense, drawing us into a relationship that we desperately want to see work. But the screenplay lets its characters down, as it devolves into platitudes and melodrama.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 30, 2013
The absurd turns the story takes to serve up streetwise and bloody "life lessons" for the kid will make any parent blanch and any movie lover roll his or her eyes.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company LUV Films 5, Gordon Bijelonic / Datari Turner Films, Hollywood Studios, Rival Pictures, Stony Island Films, Taggart Productions, TideRock Films, Zhi Media
Release Date Jan 18, 2013
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Follow your hero. Or become your own man.
Website http://luvthefilm.com/
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Awards

Black Reel Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Humanitas Prize
• 1 Nomination

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