Levity

  • Crime
  • Drama
3/16/2003
100
R

How you gonna make it right?

Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the newly paroled man seeks redemption. Instead, redemption—in the form of a mysterious minister and two needy women— finds him.

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Revenue:
$723,000
Budget:
$7,500,000

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  • Wuchak

    Meditation on the nature of guilt and redemption with Billy Bob Thornton and Morgan Freeman

    Released in 2003 and written/directed by Ed Solomon, Levity concerns a man in the Great Lakes region (Billy Bob Thornton) whos released from prison after 23 years of confinement. He returns to the big city where he murdered a 17 year-old cashier and finds lodging & work at a community house run by a priest with edge (Morgan Freeman). Seeking forgiveness, he pursues a relationship with the sister of the boy he killed (Holly Hunter) while helping a wild young woman who lacks adult guidance and is wasting her life (Kirsten Dunst).

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