I have no idea why you would debut a trailer on a Friday night, but that’s exactly what the Weinstein Co. did with their Fruitvale Station trailer so I decided to just hold off and make it a first priority this Monday morning as I am currently flying somewhere over the middle of the U.S. on my way to Cannes where I will be seeing Fruitvale this Thursday, May 16.
Directed by Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will play the Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes this year.
The film stars Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) as Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who loved his friends, was generous to strangers, and had a hard time telling the truth to the mother of his beautiful daughter.
Oscar was scared and courageous and charming and raw, and as human as the community he was part of. That community paid attention to him, shouted on his behalf, and filmed him with their cell phones when BART officers, who were strong, intimidated, and acting in the way they thought they were supposed to behave around people like Oscar, shot him in cold blood at the Fruitvale subway stop on New Year’s Day in 2009. Melonie Diaz, Ahna O’Reilly, Chad Michael Murray, Kevin Durand and Octavia Spencer co-star.
Weinstein will release the film on July 26. Check out the trailer below and see what you think.
