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Violent melodrama.
Mike Clark, USA Today
Dangerous Ground
What he wants is revenge. What he gets is the fight of his life.
1997 · 1h 35m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Darrell James Roodt
Overview
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
Director and cast
- Darrell James Roodt Director
- Ice Cube as Vusi Madlazi
- Elizabeth Hurley as Karen
- Ving Rhames as Muki
- Thokozani Nkosi as Young Vusi
- Ron Smerczak as Interrogation Policeman (as Ron Smerczac)
- Wilson Dunster as Heavy Policeman
- Sechaba Morojele as Ernest Madlazi
- Peter Khubeke as Igqira (as Peter Kubheka)
- Roslyn Morapedi Cast
- Mabel Mafuya Cast
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