![]() ![]() Oscar parries and thrusts in the bedroom, as he and Sophina fret together and make love together.Ĭoogler isn't after much more than what naturally comes with his approach: a memorial in dramatic prose, an occasion for cathartic outrage and empathetic grief. Oscar buys a birthday card for his mother, and looks forward to a dinner of Grandma Bonnie's gumbo. Oscar helps a market customer to prepare for a Southern fish fry. More often, though, it is deliberately mundane. Here and in the stomach-churning climax, Fruitvale Station functions on a gut level. In what seems at the time, ironically, to be the worst-case scenario, Oscar flashes a volatile temper (which he hasn't entirely conquered in the present) as well as little-boy-lost remorse toward a mother achingly forcing herself to "tough love" her son. In a flashback to San Quentin (on New Year's Eve day of 2007), Coogler, Jordan, and Octavia Spencer (splendid as Grant's mom Wanda) establish emotional stakes. With four-year-old daughter Tatiana (Ariana Neal), girlfriend Sophina (Melonie Diaz), and assorted family elders, Oscar radiates love and charm, but in unguarded moments, he reveals his anxiety about making ends meet without getting caught in a parole violation and reliving his nightmare of prison-bound separation from loved ones. Jordan ( The Wire, Friday Night Lights) ably walks a mile in Grant's shoes, conspiring with Coogler to show many facets of their subject. Fruitvale Station tallies the toll of what was lost on New Year's Day 2009. What follows, in docudramatic form, strives to round out our knowledge of this ordinary twenty-two-year-old American male, to return this symbol to his humanity as a son, a grandson, a boyfriend, a father. The film begins with the infamous cellphone video of Grant's ignominious end in the titular BART station, pointing up that this is what we have seen and mostly know of Grant. But Bay Area-bred writer-director Ryan Coogler feels it's precisely the point that we all do need to get to know the man-as more than a victim frozen in time. We do our best to fulfill orders as quickly as we can.Bay Area audiences may feel they need no introduction to Oscar Grant III when it comes to Fruitvale Station, a based-on-a-true-story film about the young local's last hours on Earth. For MOD requests, processing time could be up to 1 week on average. Our processing time is 1-2 days for in-stock items for domestic orders. The price of the items would only cover the operational / raw material / shipping costs and would be sold for personal use only. We would not make any profit out of such sale. Many DVD stores now offer MOD service, and so do we to keep a competitive edge. Should an item be unavailable, we would inform you if it was possible to provide an on-Demand DVD-R version of the requested item, but we offer no guarantees. Please read our notice and takedown policy by clicking here. Notice and Takedown policyĪs a professional and reputable online store, DVD Planet Store is fully committed to the twin issues of copyright and trademarks. Our representative will get in touch with the customer with the availability of the items when an order is placed. Since, we do not take payments online at this time, there is 0% risk in placing order for movies you like on our website. Our aim is to build a comprehensive listing of movies and TV shows available to date. The items that are not released yet, or not out on DVD / Blu-ray are indeed unavailable, and that is what we would tell our customers if the requests ever come in. Our catalog is built as a reference for our customers, while we do our best to sync our in-stock items on our website. ![]() Please note that a product being listed on our website does not necessarily mean it is in stock and readily available for order. ![]()
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