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The Brothers 
| 60% Recommended by our customers. Studio: Sony Catalog: DVD Release date: 2001-07-31 Media: DVD released in theatres: 2001-03-23 Running time in minutes: 102 DVD aspect ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 99 released in theatres: 2001-03-23 Ean: 9780767866361 Book Isbn: 0767866363 Upc: 043396063945  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsActors:
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 Written on April 24, 2007 Summary: Good Movie, Great Acting, Jenifer Lewis I never saw the promo for this movie, I happened to catch it on Hi-Def Satellite and it is without a doubt one of the best movies I have ever seen. The direction was on the mark, the plot was the usual fare of "afraid to give my heart" but it clearly shows that the universal theme of men vs women is always an enjoyable one to watch. I was skeptical about this movie at first thinking this was just another, (excuse me ladies), "chick flick" but the intricacies of black relationships and friendships and family interplay were as genuine as a Tyler Perry play or movie. The characters were well developed the guys and especially the ladies were of todays' best young and mature actors and the feeling of the movie was contemporary and it felt real especially the funny parts. D. L. Hughley was hilarous, Angelle Brooks & Gabrielle Union were incredibly hot, it was great to see Marla Gibbs again on the screen, the little girl from "Fresh Prince" Tatyana Ali did a great job, and Jenifer Lewis as always stole the show. Being a black man I especially identify with the male characters in that we have a unique place that society has placed us in that we must use to our advantage to build up not tear down as long as it doesn't hurt or destroy the lives of others. There is a lot of bad press out about black men today because of a few bone heads so when a movie like this comes along it is fun, funny, heartfelt and genuine to experience. Right on the money for the young as well as the middle-aged black professional such as myself. Buy it, you may like it. Written on March 30, 2007 Summary: "Men & Women vs. Drama" This is a Excellent movie. The movie proves that men, come with just as much drama as women. Also it has alot of humerous laughter. With a great cast.  Written on August 23, 2006 Summary: Give me head or I'll give you hell. This film concerns black men and nothing but black men, but these black men in the USA, due to their African heritage they cannot deny in any way though they at times don't even know about it and their European or western surroundings that they have not chosen whatsoever and yet cannot evade in the slightest way imaginable, (these black men) represent what white men are already living or will eventually soon live due to white women's liberation. Black women have never been the slaves of their men ever, and particularly not as much and as far as white women just fifty years ago still. The relations between black men and black women have to be built on personally chosen terms that have to vary from one pair of partners to another. That's what's love: something unique for each pair, couple or even group of people who experience it. Then why four men, with one father and one mother (in fact with a slight appearance of a second mother and a slightly less slight appearance of a third mother) behind? Four men like the four evangelists, the four gospels, the four cardinal points, the four winds, the four elements composing the universe, so many other four whatever. Four is a cultural structure that conveys in our civilization the idea of balance, equilibrium and perfection, and yet also that of a certain crucifixion, which is in its turn the promise of a resurrection and even farther off the promise of the final end of our world of tears and the eternal emergence of the messianic Jerusalem, the fulfilling of the millenium long prediction. Four men, thus, but one of them is different, the little young John, the visionary and apocalyptic one, three synoptic ones and one who stands apart. Patterns cannot evade our subconscious, and quite often conscious, way of thinking and imagination. For these men, the group, the brotherhood is the base to which you go back when you are disoriented. In our world and in African tradition it is not any more or has never been the family, at least certainly not the cellular family, a 19th century invention that is plainly exploding today when one adult buries his parents at the same time as he retires from his job and when his children are already raising their own children into teenage and high school. What they experience is love, manly love as Walt Whitman used to call it. But for their own sake they need procreative love that is hormonal, heterosexual and family-line forming. Black men are more advanced than white men, though their experience would look messy to white men: that is the kind of mess awaiting white men in the near future: they will have to live up to it or retire into oblivion. For white men it sounds like castration, frustration, and some other perversions. In fact it is looking for love where it is: everywhere. Love for procreation and physical pleasure that goes through sex, love for life experience and spiritual or professional performance and perspective, love for intimate sharing and interlacing of feelings, emotions and reflections. The latter two types have no obligation to be heterosexual since they are not sexual. The first type has to be sexual but is open today to personal and private choices. The film deals with this issue without any discretion at all with a wife refusing, being unable to give head to her husband - note well it is because her mummy told her it was disgusting. What her mummy told her definitely was disgusting and mean and coming from a time when sex was not pleasure but only a duty to be performed in order to continue the biological race and the blood line of the family. Finally note the director is very careful to avoid any ambiguous situation among these four men and even the father who is a fifth man, the fifth branch of a pentacle. No ambiguity, not even a hint, though of course we could see a lot of symbolic nuances and innuendo. But who understands symbolism in our world of direct and immediate real time communication: symbolism is indirect, delayed and slowed down communication, the food for the thinking of intellectuals. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne Written on August 14, 2006 Summary: Mildly entertaining and has a nice flow It's about four good looking and professional Black men. "The Brothers" is what they call themselves collectively. Each has a story around them. One falls in love for a woman who dated his dad. She's reluctant to tell him this even as their relationship deepens. Another is angry at Black woman and bad-mouthes them. It's because he's hurt about how his mother treats him. The third is a guy who plays the field and been with so many women that when he announces he's is going to marry the one he's with now, "the brothers" are shocked. One thing he doesn't like about her is her gun. The last is married and has a little girl. He wants his wife to try something different in bed, she doesn't want to calling it "nasty". They both get stubborn over this issue and causes a lot of tension between them. Written on July 13, 2006 Summary: The Brothers It's a great movie as 4 close friends discover a lot about each other and themselves and the women who are in their lives. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2001-07-31 | 2000-02-29 | 2000-10-10 | 1999-07-27 | 2003-02-11 | 2002-06-04 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 2001-03-23 | 1999-10-22 | 2000-04-21 | 1997-03-14 | 2002 | 2001-09-07 |
| Running time in minutes | 102 | 120 | 124 | 110 | 109 | 90 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 1.33:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.33:1 | 1.33:1 |
| Audience Rating | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | R (Restricted) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | R (Restricted) |
| Picture format | - | Anamorphic Widescreen | - | Anamorphic Widescreen, Pan & Scan | - | - |
| Format | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| DVD Region code | 99 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 99 |
| DVD layers | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - |
| DVD sides | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Ean | 9780767866361 | 9780783240206 | 9780780631717 | 9780780626928 | 0024543065494 | 9780767874304 |
| Book Isbn | 0767866363 | 0783240201 | 0780631714 | 0780626923 | - | 0767874307 |
| Upc | 043396063945 | 025192071522 | 794043506420 | 794043478628 | 024543065494 | 043396071070 |
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