Director John Singleton blends the conventions of the revenge Western with the style and sounds of '70s blaxploitation into his strongest film since BOYZ N THE HOOD, which also amounts to a close but uncredited remake of the 1965 John Wayne movie THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER. On a cold November night in Detroit's blighted Highland Park, an elderly white woman named Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan) is shot to death in a corner grocery store, apparently the victim of a routine robbery. A local hero in a beleaguered, predominantly black community, Evelyn spent her life placing thousands of kids in foster care and adopting four young men so difficult that she had no choice b...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
n/a