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  • 2000
  • Offline Releasing
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2000
  • Offline Releasing
  • 1 h 16 m

Summary 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)

Directed By: Marc Levin

Written By: Anna Deavere Smith

  • 2000
  • Offline Releasing
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2000
  • Offline Releasing
  • 1 h 16 m

Twilight: Los Angeles

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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)

Directed By: Marc Levin

Written By: Anna Deavere Smith

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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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.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Jessica Winter FULL REVIEW
70
Part documentary, part one-woman quick-change show and part sociological investigation, this is enthralling theater with a purpose.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Jonathan Foreman FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
50
The camera's closer scrutiny doesn't flatter this unique theatrical reportage.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Off Line Entertainment Group, Stage on Screen, Thirteen / WNET
Release Date Sep 22, 2000
Duration 1 h 16 m
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