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Chapter & Verse
When Lance Ingram came out of prison, he found himself unable to adapt to the constantly changing Harlem as he lived in a halfway house under strict supervision of the conditional release officer, living a miserable life full of grief from his routine lifestyle. He could not live his life in a natural way.
17 May 1994, San Diego, California, USA
26 May 1972
16 May 1990, New York City, New York, USA
23 November 2005, New York, USA
9 January 1974, Savannah, Georgia, USA
11 July 1978, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA
21 August 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
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.
January 12, 2017
A drama that has us cheering on an ex-con who is on a serious quest for a transformed life.
January 26, 2017
Earnest but over-familiar ex-con tries to go straight in Harlem tale.
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.
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 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.
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.
February 10, 2017
Despite its familiarity, "Chapter & Verse" manages to make its material both fresh and authentic.
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.
February 09, 2017
Tender, heartfelt, well-acted and quietly powerful despite being slightly overstuffed with dramatic conflicts.
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 09, 2017
[A] tough/tender portrait of an ex-con attempting to find redemption in modern-day transitional Harlem.
