Tag: Omari Hardwick

Chapter & Verse

Release Date:  9/23/15 – 9/27/15 (Urbanworld Film Festival); 2014
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Running Time:  62 mins.
Studio:  Harlem Film Company
Director: Jamal Joseph
Cast:  Daniel Beaty (Lance), Loretta Devine (Miss Maddy), Omari Hardwick (Jomo),
Selenis Leyva (Yolanda), Marc John Jefferies (B-Rock), Khadim Diop (Ty), Justin Martin
(G-Rod).

Story:  Upon his return from serving a ten-year sentence in prison, reformed gang leader, S. Lance Ingram, struggles to adapt to a changed Harlem. Unable to use the technological skills he acquired in jail, Lance is forced to accept a position delivering meals for a local food bank. It is here that he befriends Ms. Maddy, a past beauty with an irreverent and hardened shell to whom he delivers dinners. Through her, Lance finds hope, relearning the joys of life and living despite the outwardly bedeviled society in which they find themselves. Source: IMDB.

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Middle of Nowhere

Middle of NowhereRelease Date:  1/13/15 (DVD, Digital HD, On Demand); 10/12/12 (Theatrical Release, limited)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  R
Running Time:  97 mins.
Studio:  Forward Movement,  Lionsgate Home Entertainment and Code Black Films
Director:  Ava DuVernay
Cast:  Emayatzy Corinealdi ((Ruby) Omari Hardwick (Derek), Edwina Findley (Rosie), Lorraine Toussaint (Ruth), David Oyelowo (Brian), Sharon Lawrence (Fraine), Maya Gilbert (Gina).

Story:  As Ruby rides a bus through the inner city streets, she wills herself to push away memories that crowd her. Four years earlier, she was a vibrant medical student married to the love of her life, Derek. Now, she makes her way to the maximum security prison on the outskirts of town. This is where her love now resides. Behind coiled razor wire and forty foot concrete walls. As the couple stares into the hallow end of an eight-year prison sentence, Ruby must learn to live another life, one marked by shame and separation.

But through a chance encounter with hard-working bus driver Brian and a stunning betrayal that shakes her to the core, she is soon propelled in new and often frightening directions of self-discovery. As we chronicle her turbulent yet transformative journey, we witness the emergence of a broken woman made whole. Source(s): middlenowhere.com, official site; IMDB.

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