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Summary Louis (Jeffrey Wright) is weeks away from the end of his 24-year-long jail sentence when he tries to help new inmate Beecher (Theothus Carter) in this movie filmed with actual inmmates and staff in an active maximum-security prison.
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- HBO
- TV-MA
- HBO
O.G.
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 23, 2019
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Summary Louis (Jeffrey Wright) is weeks away from the end of his 24-year-long jail sentence when he tries to help new inmate Beecher (Theothus Carter) in this movie filmed with actual inmmates and staff in an active maximum-security prison.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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25% Mixed
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13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
69
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
In the end, every cliché and nearly every expectation that comes in a typical prison film is stripped away. What’s left is an unshakable performance, and a sense that you’ve seen a piece of cinematic art that isn’t fiction or nonfiction, but somewhere in between.
It’s keen-eyed and unflinching without giving in to the temptation to make everyone as bad as possible; even the authorities are human beings. Because of this, it holds the tragedy of squandered human potential up to the light. It doesn’t have a complicated plot, and because of that you can see how much is really going on. It eschews sentimentality and achieves genuine feeling.
The brilliant Jeffrey Wright plays Louis in the HBO movie O.G., and it is one of the finest performances of his career. ... O.G. is a work of fiction and yet is almost unsettling in its authenticity. Director Madeleine Sackler does a magnificent job of plunging us into this world.
O.G. can be a tad slow, a touch too simple, and even a little distracted from making a larger, more declarative point about modern incarceration. But by carving its own path through Louis — and with a huge helping hand from Wright — it’s nothing short of original.
An intense and immersive, if overly familiar, prison drama. [18 Feb - 3 Mar 2019, p.15]
The film needed more insight, more spirit of curiosity and provocation beyond its pious, vitamin-rich but ultimately inert and unsurprising take on prison, in order to justify its place.
O.G.’s ostensible authenticity does little to add dramatic heft to these stock character moments. Wright does most of the heavy lifting here, weaponizing glances and gestures to impart a weary history that the film fails to develop.
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Production Company:
- Great Curve Films
- Brookstreet Pictures
Initial Release Date: Feb 23, 2019
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
NAMIC Vision Awards
• 1 Nomination
