Continuity mistake: When Claude and Ray are first put in jail, Sheriff Warren Pike's cut is straight up and down. At the end of the movie the scar is at an angle.
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.
More mistakes in Life
Claude Banks: Don't touch this car.
Rayford Gibson: 'Cause I piss on the motherfucker. I ain't gonna touch it, I piss on it.
Claude Banks: Why you got to say nasty shit, Ray?
Rayford Gibson: 'Cause I'm a nasty motherfucker.
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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