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DVD : Fighting WordsIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Edward Albert, C. Thomas Howell, Joe Restivo, Tucker Smallwood, Fred Willard directed by: E. Paul Edwards  List Price: $17.99 Amazon.com's Price: $15.99 You Save: $2.00 (11%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: INDICAN PICTURES EAN: 0825284200331 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Indican Manufacturer: Indican Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Indican Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 16, 2007 Running Time: 89 minutes Studio: Indican Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Sales Rank: 135687 MPN: IDCD00432K4D Editorial Review: Product Description: In underground clubs around the country is an undiscovered phenomenon called Slam Poetry where gifted poets fresh off the street go to war with each other through words. One night during one of these rants a gifted poet, JAKE THOMPSON is discovered by an attractive publisher, MARNI ELLIOT looking for new poets. Jake thinks he s got it made, but when their relationship turns sexual, a dark secret is revealed and Jake realizes that love is more than words and that sometimes you have to fight for the ones you love. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - well meaning film falls flat**1/2 Written and directed by E. Paul Edwards, "Fighting Words" is a low-budget romantic drama set in the fringe world of slam poetry. Jake Thompson (Jeff Stearns) is the pained poet and Marni Elliot (Tara T`Agostino) the HIV-positive book publisher who takes an interest in the promising young man's person and work. C. Thomas Howell appears as a slime ball, cutthroat poet (and ex-boy friend of Marni) who will stop at nothing to keep Jake from winning a competition and the book deal ... Read More Rating:  - Do not watch if you love poetry, slam or good movies!To put it briefly, this is the absolute opposite of everything it could or should have been. In the beginning, there are about 5 minutes worth of early footage where the movie-makers sound like they know what they are doing. They manage to touch on two very salient and common feelings/occurences within slam....which could have led to some great, insightful work or at least entertaining musings, but both of these quickly go out the window and for the rest of the film....it becomes painfully obvious ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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