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Unfolding with the speed and rhythm of an action movie and showcasing stylistic flourishes that hint at Quentin Tarantino, STANDER takes on one of history's most infamous injustices with a surprising amount of humor and vivacity. Set in 1976, the film tells the true story of Andre Stander, a young police captain in Johannesburg,.. Read more

Starring Thomas Jane, Deborah Kara Unger, David Patrick O'Hara, Dexter Fletcher
Director Bronwen Hughes
Genres Drama

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Unfolding with the speed and rhythm of an action movie and showcasing stylistic flourishes that hint at Quentin Tarantino, STANDER takes on one of history's most infamous injustices with a surprising amount of humor and vivacity. Set in 1976, the film tells the true story of Andre Stander, a young police captain in Johannesburg, South Africa. His apex of official power coincided with the pinnacle of the devastating policies of apartheid. As the movie illustrates in an evocative and pivotal scene, Stander's view of his society and position within it is profoundly shaken when he kills an unarmed black man during a chaotic anti-apartheid riot. Aware that he lives in a society so devastatingly racist that he is free to murder without consequence, Stander stages an unconventional political protest by robbing banks. As he becomes more and more successful at maintaining a double life as a criminal-cop, his addiction to the thrills and accoutrements of the outlaw lifestyle begin to overshadow any political purpose. Director Bronwen Hughes (best known for helming studio flicks FORCES OF NATURE and HARRIET THE SPY) has skillfully woven together elements of a political tract, character study, and heist movie to a unified and compelling whole. But the movie belongs to its star, Thomas Jane, who seems to dissolve into his complex role, making Stander an irresistibly contradictory antihero.

Starring Thomas Jane, Deborah Kara Unger, David Patrick O'Hara, Dexter Fletcher
Director Bronwen Hughes
Studio MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 47 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Drama
Language English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 05 Sep 2005
Production year: 2004
Format DVD

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  • A white South African cop uses his insiders knowledge to pull off a series of bank robberies, a stiff jail sentence... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

  • Intriguing and thought provoking...an astonishing tale

    • The Observer
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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  • 30 out of 37 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Very different & very, very good!

    A wonderfully atmospheric film that is made even more fascinating by the fact that the story is largely true. A wonderfully charismatic performance by Thomas Jane as the lead Andre Stander.

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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Lekker flik, vyf ster

    I spent 20 years in South Africa and remember the Stander gang getting into the media at the time due to their audacity to rob a second bank in the very street that the SAP were investigating the first one they had robbed. The political theme is either inserted to make the film politically correct, or it was really the view held by Stander - but I find that a little hard to swallow knowing the views generally held by Afrikaners at that time, the height of the apartheid and 'swart gevaar' years. Enjoyed it though, as did my son who has never been to South Africa.

      • A customer from Hampshire, UK
      • Posted 01 Oct 2005 18:24

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