In My Country (2005) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	March 11, 2005 (LA/NY)
On DVD:	July 5, 2005
Genre:	Drama
Director:	John Boorman
Writer:	Ann Peacock
Cast:	Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Sam Ngakane, Brendan Gleeson, Menzi Ngubane
Studio:	Sony Pictures Classics
Official site:	sonyclassics.com/comingsoon.php?filmid=85&page=3
Running Time:	104 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for language, including descriptions of atrocities, and for a scene of violence

Langston Whitfield (Jackson) is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during the Apartheid era are invited to come forward and confront their victims. By telling the unvarnished truth and expressing contrition, they may be granted amnesty. Can the deep wounds of Apartheid be healed through reconciliation? Langston is deeply sceptical....

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