Is it a docudrama about South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings? Or is it love story? The problem with "In My Country" is that it tries to be both. And that clunky combo undermines what should have been an important film about race, violence and forgiveness. Read the full review
Romance blossoms in the late 1990s between a married American Washington Post journalist and an Afrikaner poet/radio journalist who meet while covering the proceedings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson
Run time: 104 minutes
Release date: April 1, 2005
Rating: R for language, including descriptions of atrocities, and for a scene of violence.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C-
"...a leaden script that has costars Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson mouthing big statements more than acting."
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