Levity
(2003)
★ 6.1 IMDb · 124 votes
Year: 2003
Runtime: 100 мин
Country: United States of America, France
Director: Эд Соломон
Cast: Билли Боб Торнтон, Морган Фримен, Холли Хантер, Кирстен Данст, Manuel Aranguiz, Geoffrey Wigdor, Luke Robertson, Дориан Хэрвуд, Catherine Colvey, Billoah Greene
Plot
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.
The film discusses a philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley, and returns to the city he lived in to try to seek redemption. He ends up living and working at a community house run by a preacher, Miles Evans. The film is equipped with beautiful voice-overs about the meaning of life and different philosophies for getting redeemed. Manual also becomes friends with Adele Easley, his victim's sister, in an attempt to make up for what he did. While working at the home he has interactions with Sofia Mellinger, the druggie daughter of a famous singer, struggling with the lack of adult guidance in her life.