Chapter & Verse
The drama 'Chapter & verse' revolves around Lance Ingram, the gang leader who spent 8 years in prison, who is punished for many crimes committed in his life. But he left another person who entered prison where he wanted to work honorably and keep away from all the evil deeds he had done before.
21 August 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
17 May 1994, San Diego, California, USA
23 November 2005, New York, USA
9 January 1974, Savannah, Georgia, USA
11 July 1978, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA
16 May 1990, New York City, New York, USA
26 May 1972
February 01, 2017
Chapter &Verse is not simply a story about new beginnings. It's a film about all the ways things have changed for Black people (Black men in particular) and all of the ways that they have continued to remain the same.
February 09, 2017
[A] tough/tender portrait of an ex-con attempting to find redemption in modern-day transitional Harlem.
February 09, 2017
Tender, heartfelt, well-acted and quietly powerful despite being slightly overstuffed with dramatic conflicts.
January 30, 2017
An authentic look at street life in Harlem with the suggestion that the high incidence of crime results from the lack of male role models.
February 09, 2017
Beaty's original screenplay and performance stand out to make Chapter & Verse a remarkable chapter in African-American storytelling from the twenty-first century.
February 10, 2017
Despite its familiarity, "Chapter & Verse" manages to make its material both fresh and authentic.
February 04, 2017
Resonating with an authenticity borne of the experiences of its director/co-screenwriter Jamal Joseph, Chapter & Verse movingly portrays the plight of a recently released ex-con striving to make a new life for himself on the mean streets of Harlem.
February 02, 2017
The utter realness of this story and the way it has been handled is the resonating strength of Jamal Joseph's gripping, affecting study of survival in today's Harlem.
January 12, 2017
A drama that has us cheering on an ex-con who is on a serious quest for a transformed life.
February 02, 2017
The movie's wide-screen framing, ruthless plot reversals and say-what-you-mean writing sometimes recall a master of socially conscious cinema from another era, Sam Fuller. But this is a picture with its own strong voice.
January 26, 2017
Earnest but over-familiar ex-con tries to go straight in Harlem tale.
February 03, 2017
The story, scripted by Beaty and poet/author-turned-filmmaker Jamal Joseph (who himself did five-and-a-half years in Leavenworth) dips into sloppy, melodramatic heavy-handedness, sullying the occasional spurts of fresh perspective.
