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Across the Line

Name: Across the Line
Genre: Drama
Released: 2016-04-08
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 5.2

★ 5,2 /10 (14 Votes)

2016 EN 88 min

Overview

Out of the approximately 600 players in the National Hockey League, thirty are Black. Mattie Slaughter, a hockey phenom from the rural Black community of North Preston, wants to make it thirty-one. To reach his goal, Mattie needs to keep his nose clean and avoid trouble. Hard to do though, when you go to a school where racism taints every interaction, your older brother is a hustler and you’re crushing on a girl who’s already hooked up.

Release date

08/04/2016

Votes

Popularity

0.8

Genres

Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

88 min

Stephan James

Mattie Slaughter

Sarah Jeffery

Jayme Crawley

Shamier Anderson

Carter Slaughter

Lanette Ware

Velma

Steven Love

John

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Denis Theriault

Todd

Kim Parkhill

Police Officer

Cara Ricketts

Lori Downey

Hugh Thompson

Len Jacobsen

Original Soundtrack

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Starts out alright but as a whole a rather lackluster film with a oversimplified view on racism. Directed by a director who refers to himself as 'Director X' who after a bit of research was a Hype Williams trained musicvideo director previously going under the name of 'Little X' with his most famous effort before getting into film was Justin Bieber's Boyfriend video. But 'Little X' didn't sound like a serious enough name to direct films and short films so he changed it to 'Director X' instead. Anyhow, I would honestly not have thought he was a musicvideo-director because they tend …

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