The read
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do. Most of the 930 2000s crime movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes34%
Metacritic45/100
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
124 audience votes
Key crew
- Ed SolomonDirector
- Ed SolomonWriter
- Mark Oliver EverettOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Billy Bob ThorntonManuel Jordan
- Morgan FreemanMiles Evans
- Holly HunterAdele Easley
- Kirsten DunstSofia Mellinger
- Manuel AranguizSenor Aguilar
- Geoffrey WigdorAbner Easley
- Luke RobertsonYoung Abner Easley
- Dorian HarewoodMackie Whittaker
- Catherine ColveyClaire Mellinger
- Billoah GreeneDon
- Sadiki BurkeSadiki
- Abede BurkeAbede
