Detroit [Blu-ray]

Overview

Director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) and screenwriter Mark Boal reteam for this docudrama about the Detroit race riots of July 1967, which engulfed the city for five days after the public were outraged by the brutality of a police raid on an unlicensed bar. The film eventually zeros in on one particular incident at the Algiers Motel, where a group of black men and white women were terrorized (and some killed) by police officers. John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Anthony Mackie, Jason Mitchell, Jack Reynor, Hannah Murray, Kaitlyn Dever, and John Krasinski star.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/12/2017
UPC:	0024543439530
Original Release:	2017
Rating:	R
Source:	BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:23:00
Sales rank:	22,825

Special Features

Closed Caption; The Truth Of Detroit; The Cast of Detroit; The Invasion of Detroit; The hope of Detroit; Detroit - Then and Now; Algee Smith and Larry Reed: "Grow

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Boyega	Dismukes
Algee Smith	Larry,Lee,Foreman Pete
Jason Mitchell	Carl,Ma Pollard
Jack Reynor	Demens
Ephraim Sykes	Jimmy
Leon Thomas III	Darryl
Nathan Davis Jr.	Aubrey
Malcolm David Kelley	Michael
Gbenga Akinnagbe	Aubrey Pollard, Sr.
Chris Chalk	Officer Frank
Austin Hebert	Warrant Officer Roberts
Miguel J. Pimentel	Malcolm
Khris Davis	Blind Pig Patron
Mason Alban	Police Sergeant James
Bennett Deady	Police Officer Bill
Andrea Eversley	Dancer
Michael Jibrin	Vietnam Vet
Tokunbo Joshua Olumide	Dave
Daniel Washington	Blind Pig Bouncer
Amari Cheatom	Undercover Cop
Tyler James Williams	Leon
Benz Veal	Nate Conyers
Angel Blaise	Young Kid #1
Lance Law	Young Kid #2
Jaleel Sanders	Young Kid #3
Raymond Moreno	Young Kid #4
Donald St. John	Fire Chief
Kegan Cline	Tank Spotter
Corinne Pitts-Wiley	Young Girl In Apartment,Spencer
Ashley Richardson	Elderly Woman
Barton Bund	Desk Sergeant
Justin Mane	Police Officer #1
Dennis Staroselsky	Detective Jones
Darren Goldstein	Detective Tanchuk
Karen Pittman	Dismuke's Mother
Zurin Villanueva	Martha
Anissa Felix	Vandella #1
Amber Owens	Vandella #2
Jonny P.	Announcer
George Hooker	Stage Manager
Samira Wiley	Vanessa
Eddie Troy	Police Officer Paul
Devin Clark	Kid On Street
Joey Lawyer	National Guardsman Mike
Will Bouvier	National Guardsman Matthew
Morgan Taylor	Linda Tucker
Michael Haase	Dispatcher
Zachary Eisenstat	State Policeman #1
Jimi Stanton	State Policeman #2
Bates Wilder	State Police Sergeant
David Adam Flannery	Police Officer David
Kris Sidberry	Roberta Pollard
Nickolas Lorizio	Police Officer #3
Jeff Avigian	Police Officer #4
Chris Coy	Detective Thomas
Ato Blankson-Wood	Eddie
Cailyn Kemka	Nurse
Henry Frost lll	George
Josh Bartlett	Sound Tech
Ramatoulaye Bah Bangura	Young Girl
Kenneth Israel	Mailman
Alexander Cook	Head Juror
Gary Wilmes	Reporter at Court
Jeffrey L. Brown	Pastor
Russell Jones	Choir Master,Choir Master
Tumelano Chapman	Choir Member,Choir Member
Cherrelle Kimble	Choir Member
Dennis Montgomery lll	Choir Member
Jerome Thompson	Choir Member
Esslena Jackson	Choir Member
Valeri Lewis	Choir Member
Alvin Darrell Randolph	Choir Member
Tara Winborne	Choir Member
Miguel	Malcolm
Victoria Thomas	Actor
mackie	Actor
Ben O'Toole	Flynn
Edward Arrendell	Choir Member
Hannah Murray	Actor
Jacob Latimore	Actor
Kaitlyn Dever	Actor

Technical Credits

Mark Boal	Director,Producer
Matthew Budman	Director
Hugo Lindgren	Executive Producer
Kathryn Bigelow	Producer
Colin Wilson	Producer
Richard Hicks	Casting
Victoria Thomas	Casting
Paul Ottosson	Sound/Sound Designer
Carolyn Pickman	Casting
Ray Beckett	Sound Mixer

Editorial Reviews

Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow's bold, brutal, blood-drenched drama about the atrocious events that unfolded at the Algiers Motel during the city's deadly race riots in July 1967, plays out like the most frightening kind of home-invasion horror film. That's because the events depicted are real and, as staged by Bigelow, feel like they are occurring in the present right before our eyes rather than 50 years ago. This isn't a feel-good docudrama with an uplifting, healing message: It's intended to provoke outrage and remind viewers of more recent protests regarding police treatment of African-Americans, and on that level it's an unqualified success. Detroit opens with the notorious 12th Street Riot -- a five-day revolt that resulted in 43 deaths and more than a thousand injuries -- which started when police raided a "blind pig" (an unlicensed after-hours nightclub) and threatened the black patrons who were there to honor a returning Vietnam veteran. As the mostly white cops shove people into vans and haul them off to jail, a defiant crowd gathers outside, and it isn't long before violence erupts. Rocks are hurled through store windows. Looting becomes rampant. Buildings are set ablaze. Soon, the National Guard are called in to help restore order. Downtown, Martha and the Vandellas sing "Nowhere to Run" at the Fox Theater to an appreciative crowd, while a promising new group called the Dramatics anxiously wait in the wings for what they hope will be their big break. Unfortunately, just as they are about to take the stage, the concert is abruptly cancelled by law enforcement and everyone is ordered out of the theater. The members of the Dramatics split up, and lead singer Larry Reed (a heartbreaking Algee Smith) and friend Fred Temple (Jacob Latimore) get a room in an annex adjoining the Algiers Motel, a black-owned establishment routinely raided for prostitution, so they can avoid the street violence. Stupidly, a 17-year-old black kid (Jason Mitchell) shoots a starter pistol from a window, which leads a nearby National Guard unit to believe there's a sniper in the building. They return fire, and a local police unit swarm in to head up the probe and locate the shooter. What follows is one of the most unsettling, traumatic, and tragic scenes to be found in any movie this century. Three white, malevolent cops -- led by a baby-faced officer named Krauss (Will Poulter), who's already under investigation for gunning down a black looter -- line everyone in the annex up against a wall and demand they turn the shooter and the weapon over to them. They are further incensed when they discover two white girls there, assuming they're prostitutes who are turning tricks with black men. This sequence, which includes savage beatings, taunting racial slurs, death threats, a demented murder game in which the cops pretend to kill suspects who won't talk, and much, much worse, goes on for about 40 excruciating minutes and is the centerpiece of Bigelow's picture. It's a bravura piece of filmmaking, intensely and expertly staged, and played out in real time. All of the actors involved in this harrowing scene are excellent, including John Boyega as a good-natured security guard who tries to quell the violence, but Poulter is the standout. His riveting performance is so convincingly sadistic that theatergoers will likely forget they're watching a movie. Mark Boal, who also penned Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker, wrote the blistering script based on personal interviews with some of the eyewitnesses at the Algiers that fateful night. Although set a half-century ago, Detroit feels extremely contemporary: The filmmakers clearly want audiences to think of events in Ferguson (Michael Brown), Baltimore (Freddie Gray), New York (Eric Garner), and Saint Paul (Philando Castile) when they see Detroit -- and they undoubtedly will, especially during the movie's concluding courtroom scenes in which the victims are denied justice. Whatever one thinks of Detroit -- a brave examination of a long-forgotten injustice or a lurid portrayal of an ugly incident best left in the past -- it's guaranteed to stir strong emotions and is a powerful cinematic experience not easily shaken.