Rent Shoot the Messenger (2006)
3.5 of 5 from 48 ratings
1h 29min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
After reading a report that Black pupils from inner city schools are being failed by the education system, IT consultant Joe Pascale (David Oyelowo) becomes a teacher at a secondary school in South London with the aim of challenging the system to break the biased culture. Joe's use of discriminatory methods to ensure Black students are given extra tuition over their white counterparts and his outdated use of humiliation leads to rebellion among his pupils, one of whom falsely accuses him of assault. Publicity and media attention follow Joe who finds himself branded a racist and it is only after a tumultuous journey of self-discovery that he comes to the understanding that race and cultural identity are merely a state of mind. - Actors:
- Medina Aijikawo, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Jotham Annan, Feyi Babalola, Channei Bain, Ariyon Bakare, Richard Blackwood, Heather Bleasdale, Graham Bohea, Brian Bovell, Jay Byrd, Michael 1Sun Callum, Sabina Cameron, Rupert Degas, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, George Eggay, Eamon Geoghegan, Troy Glasgow, David Gyasi, Joan Hooley
- Directors:
- Ngozi Onwurah
- Producers:
- Anne Pivcevic
- Voiced By:
- Brice Stratford
- Writers:
- Sharon Foster
- Genres:
- Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/03/2022
- Run Time:
- 89 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Three short films by Ngozi Onwurah: 'The Body Beautiful' (1990, 24 mins): an examination of the real-life relationship between the director and her mother, Madge
- 'Flight of the Swan' (1992, 12 mins): a young girl leaves her Nigerian village for the cold, harsh landscape of England
- 'White Men are Cracking Up' (1994, 20 mins): traces the last day in the life of a white detective, obsessed with a Black 'street goddess'
- Who We Are: Filmmaker Forum with Akua Gyamfi, Fiona Lamptey, Stella Nwimo and Delia Bene (2020, 66 mins): four women creatives explore Black British film in a series curated by We Are Parable
