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8 Thursday, March 29, 2001 'Brothers' Improves Upon Genre By Michael Woods Staff Writer “A father should be wiser than his son,” says Fred (Clifton Powell) to his son Jackson (Morris Chestnut). “I’m glad that this time it turned out not to be true." You'll feel the same way after seeing “The Brothers.” With its candid wit and smooth blend of bawdy humor and heartwarming moments, there’s no doubt that “The Brothers” /review/ "The Brothers" ★★★l/2 got the best genes available in the grow ing family of upscale black drama-come dies and also learned from the mistakes of its cinematic elders. Writer/director Gary Hardwick’s debut feature focuses on black men, sex and relationships and will inevitably be compared to “The Wood” and “The Best Man.” But comparisons shouldn’t extend beyond the theme and casting similarities. While its predecessors only offered random flashbacks, “The Brothers” suc ceeds in following the lives and trials of its characters. fr.// \'T'/i • 50% Off Selected Styles • Clothing, Accessories, ** Jewelry, Tapestries and More! (• **; \ A Mon-Fri 10-7 • Sat 10-8 • Sun 12-6 .. ’A-' *!••• 412 W. Franklin Street 968-8350 B Crook’s i oL” Sol *• Friday - March 30th ' 8:00pm ’ Page Auditorium ~ Duke University $25 Tickets Tickets available at the door or call 684.4444 A Night at the Movies _ 962-4788 Air-Conditioned PHI DOtBY | STANDARD NOISE REDUCTION 3EATINC Sportsxtra - Episode 71. The latest sports news and analysis. 7:30 Center Ring - "Dispatches from the Loo" Part 1 of 2. A young man finds the girl of his dreams in the local women's lavatory. 8:00 The Suite Life - "Who Let the Crabs Out" Teacher/student love affair. Campus Love Connection. Real World tryouts. 8:30 Feedback Live - Live call-in show on campus issues. We're live and we're listening! 9:00 General College - Episode 6. Leah and Rogers get closer to breaking up; Todd and Erika just get closer. 10:00 Six-Fifty - "Heather Graham Has a Huge Forehead" Reviews of the new movies Say It Isn't So and Tomcats. Also, a look at the Planet of the Apes remake. 10:30 All Showings April 4 beginning at 6:00 pm Channel 4 Chapel Hill, Channel 22 on campus uncstv.org Each of the film’s four headliners - Jackson, Brian (Bill Bellamy), Derrick (D.L. Hughley) and Terry (Shemar Moore) - has successfully climbed up the corporate ladder but is still working his way through the maze of love. And each man has a unique approach on how to handle the situation. The most introspective and well developed member of the crew is Jackson. Bothered by his growing chain of unfiilfilling relationships as well as his growing age, he turns to therapy ses sions for answers. The contemplative path is not Terry’s choice. He suddenly decides that the time has come to stop playing games and setde down. His fiancee is right on target, but his heart is shooting blanks and, predictably, he backs out of the wedding. Derrick had no problems tying the knot, but his situation is still twisted. The group’s lone married man, he is the voice of reason and humorous truth. He listens to his pals’ exploits and is quick to cut their egos down to size. Derrick, however, is much more frustrated with his own head case than theirs. His wife’s (Tamala R. Jones) disdain for oral sex Off the Cuff - "The Lost Valentine's Day Episode" Love can hurt.. .but it can be so funny too. Viewer discretion advised. 11:00 Darkness Falls - "[sic]" A young man finds himself at the center of a series of murders. Viewer discretion advised. 11:30 Random Acts of Violent Entertain ment (R.A.V.E.) - "The Muppet Episode" R.A.V.E. goes to Sesame Street for a half hour of super happy fun time. Viewer discretion advised. Midnight STV-PD - Episode 14. “The Fluke Boys” Them crazy Fluke boys start peddlin' moonshine to save up enough money ta git their car a decent makeover. Viewer discretion advised. 12:30 POPCORN • CANDY • SOFT DRINKS are all things you can buy and eat DIVERSIONS provides some of the movie’s biggest laughs. Brian only wishes that his relation ship problems were limited to one woman. A smug attorney with a cynical attitude, Brian is the adolescent among this posse of black professionals. In his opinion, they are looking for love in all the wrong places. “Face it,” he boasts to his boys during one of several therapeutic hoops scenes. “We’re the cream of the crop.” Terry checks him, noting that Brian is merely “the black sticky shit at the bot tom of the barrel.” While escaping many tired cliches, “The Brothers” still has some of the nasty residue that plagued previous efforts in its genre. The plot is sparse, the camera work is hackneyed, and the editing is slack. 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This sense of recollection becomes even more palpable once the film gains narrative thrust, through a cataclysmic plot turn. Tragedy forces three of the children to discover heroism within themselves - or its lack -and the film’s small episodes reach a blissful profun dity. Much has been made of this picture’s debt to the work of Terrence Malick. And “George’s” director, David Gordon Green, admits that “The Thin Red Line” helped inspire him. But Green does Malick one better, by reign ing in the pensive beauty of his well Clothing • Hand,Blown Glass • Cigarettes Jewelry * And Much More 405 W. Franklin St • Chapel Hill (near McDonalds) • 967-7540 UFelohESGtlh . . .become an organ and tissue donor. AMMrofOM, One organina tissue aonor call save the lives of 8 people and improve the lives of over 50 more. 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