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13. Aug. 1999 · A Reasonable Man: Directed by Gavin Hood. With Gavin Hood, Nigel Hawthorne, Janine Eser, Vusi Kunene. With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Gavin Hood
- 1999-08-13
Premise. Sean Raine, an ex-army officer with issues of his own, defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby that he believes is an evil being known as a Tikoloshe . Cast. Gavin Hood as Sean Raine. Nigel Hawthorne as Judge Wendon. Janine Eser as Jennifer Raine. Vusi Kunene as Prosecutor Linde. Ken Gampu as Headman.
12. Aug. 2011 · Director: Gavin Hood. Screenwriter: Gavin Hood. Director of Photography: Buster Reynolds. Running time: 101 minutes. The South African A Reasonable Man is a carefully executed investigation into the importance of tribal or traditional beliefs in a country that sees itself as Western-oriented.
Synopsis by Mark Deming. In this drama, a man dealing with the ghosts of his past defends a child whose cultural dictates differ with the law. Sean Raine (Gavin Hood) was born and raised in South Africa, but during his time as a soldier in that nation's army, he killed a young black man by mistake while fighting in Angola and has been plagued ...
- Gavin Hood
The jury awards its Prize to "A Reasonable Man" for the understanding of different religious, cultural and ethnical roots. The film compares traditional values with today's by the means of reasonable and intuitive behaviour. It searches for human solutions to different wasy of approaching truth.
A Reasonable Man. When Sipho (Loyiso Gxwala), a boy in rural South Africa, is accused of murdering an infant, lawyer Sean Raine (Gavin Hood) offers to defend him on the grounds that the youth...
- Crime, Drama
A Reasonable Man tells the story of a city lawyer who comes across the case of a herdboy from remote, rural Zululand who has killed a one-year-old baby in the mistaken belief that he was killing an evil spirit known throughout Southern Africa as the "Tikoloshe". Dark secrets which lie buried deep within the lawyer connect him to the boy.
