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Kings of the Evening - Overview

Genre:   Drama  
Opened: Jun 11, 2010     Run Time: 1hr 40min  
Cast: Linara Washington   Bruce McGill  Lynn Whitfield   Tyson Beckford        
Director: Andrew P. Jones   
     
     
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PG
Synopsis
Kings of the Evening: Homer Hobbs, home after two years in jail, discovers that life on the outside can be crueler than the back-breaking injustice of the chain gang. He returns to a bleak urban town caught in the depths of the Great Depression - no jobs, no prospects, and no hope - where he is thrown together with four strangers, each struggling to survive as they scratch and scheme to dig their way out of poverty. Life is grim. But on Sunday nights, in a dingy hall ... Read More
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Box Office Data
# Weeks 2
# Total Gross $0.1M
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Kings of the Evening
Domestic Theatrical Distributor: Indican Pictures
Domestic Video Distributor: Indican Pictures
Production Company: Picture Palace Pictures
NewsBlaze
By  Kam Williams
Critic Rating: 5 star rating 5
Feb 25, 2011
An anachronistic rip-off which implies that the idea of male beauty pageants originated with African-Americans in the 1930s, instead of with Zulus in the 1990s. Is the film otherwise worthwhile? Yes, but it still weirded me out.
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L.A. Weekly
By  Ernest Hardy
Critic Rating: 8 star rating 8
Feb 25, 2011
It moves briskly but leaves room for the stellar supporting cast to turn stock figures into appealingly shaded characters.
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