Life (1999)
Plot summary
Directed by: Ted Demme
Starring: Bernie Mac, Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Nick Cassavetes, Obba Babatunde
Two men are given life in a work camp prison after they are framed by a Southern sheriff for murdering a man. We follow them through their life from their youth all the way up to when they are in their 80s.
Continuity mistake: When Ray and Claude are going to bed in the retirement home, Ray tells Claude that he's going to put his wet sheets on him when he's sleeping. If you look closely Claude starts laughing really hard, but he's not supposed to.
Claude Banks: You know what you probably just slow me down.
Rayford Gibson: How I'ma slow yo slow ass down.
Trivia: Fun to spot - In the scene where Eddie Murphy is fighting the big guy, after a while he says, "I know a bitch named Della who hit harder than you." Here, he is referring to Della Reese, whom he fought with in Harlem Nights.
Question: Why does Buscuit try to run right before he's let out? Why does he say he can't go home to his mama?
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Answer: Because he is gay. In the time this movie is set, being homosexual was not only an extreme moral and religious taboo, but it was illegal in most parts of the US. Buscuit is too ashamed of letting his mother find out about his relationship with Jangleleg, so he runs, knowing the guards will shoot him dead.
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