Adapted from acclaimed South African playwright Athol Fugard's only novel and nominated for 2005's best-foreign-language-film Oscar, writer-director Gavin Hood's powerful crime drama does more than just expose the criminal underbelly of South African township life. Like THE HARDER THEY COME (1973), CITY OF GOD (2002) and the underrated SECUESTRO EXPRESS (2004), it accurately depicts the deep divisions that threaten to destabilize society as a whole. Known around his Johannesburg shantytown only by the ghetto slang word for "thug," teenage gang-leader "Tsotsi" (Presley Chweneyagae, in a powerful debut performance) refuses to divulge anything about his past, not even t...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
94 mins