Levity ** (2003, Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst) – Classic Movie Review 7673

Director Ed Solomon’s intelligent, well-made 2003 crime drama Levity finds Billy Bob Thornton working hard and effectively as Manuel Jordan, an ex-con looking for redemption after killing a teen while carrying out a robbery 20 years earlier.

Though it is a bit low key and lacking in levity for box-office success, Solomon’s good screenplay and the excellent performances carry the day. Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter and Kirsten Dunst also star.

Also in the cast are Manuel Aranguiz, Geoffrey Wigdor, Luke Robertson, Dorian Harewood, Catherine Colvey, Billoah Greene, Sadiki Burke and Abede Burke.

Levity is directed by Ed Solomon, runs 100 minutes, is made by Levity, Sony Pictures Classics, Echo Lake, Film Colony, Revelations, Studio Canal and Entitled, is released by Columbia Pictures, is written by Ed Solomon, is shot by Roger Deakins, is produced by Morgan Freeman, Ed Solomon, Richard N Gladstein and Adam J Merrins, is scored by Mark Oliver Everett and is designed by François Séguin.

It cost $7,500,000 and grossed $209,150 in the US.

Roger Deakins also shot Thornton in The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001).

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