Product Details

• Actors: Obba Babatundé, Rae Dawn Chong, Marla Gibbs, Hill Harper, Phylicia Rashad
• Directors: Jordan Walker-Pearlman
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• DVD Release Date: October 23, 2001
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005NRNH
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #47,674 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
When Alex is sent to prison for a crime he swears he didn't commit, his family at the insistence of their brutally strict father abandon the boy to his fate.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Make This a Must Scheduled "Visit", February 2, 2002

By	Mark D. Cunningham (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"The Visit" is a very fine film with formidable performances, especially from the superb Hill Harper and Billy Dee Williams. I also thought Rae Dawn Chong was the best I've ever seen her. It is a terrible shame this film was deemed fit only to been seen in theatres on the West and East coasts. I would definitely have paid good money to see this film to give it the proper support it so richly deserved. I found myself connecting with these characters completely and regretted seeing them leave after a truly magnificent stay in my home for an hour and forty five minutes. Please rent this film. There may be little we can do about supporting it at a theatre near our respective homes, however we can do what is necessary to make sure it flies off video shelves.

While it is not my intention to insult films like "The Brothers" and "Two Can Play That Game," I do feel it is worth noting that films like "The Visit" ("Eve's Bayou" comes to mind as well as the television series adaptation of the film "Soul Food") represent the talent Black actors and filmmakers are capable of if only given the chance to be seen and heard. Bravo to Jordan Walker Pearlman for his exquisite film and let us hope this represents an embracing of excellence in the telling of Black people's stories on screen. I am very, very proud.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding redemption story, November 4, 2001

By	David Clapp "dfc-2" (TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"The Visit" is an outstanding expanded view of a prison inmate dying of AIDS. His world is defined by visits from family members and an old girl friend, and by his meetings with a prison psychologist and the parole board. Each encounter is followed by dream sequences where he imagines an intimacy with them that is impossible across the physical and mental barriers defining their short time together. The story paints a larger picture of anger, love, and forgiveness that reaches beyond the unsentimental and unvarnished prison drama to a universal redemption unbound by prison walls. Say amen somebody; this is true religion at its best, sans God or Bible, but rich in human love.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, March 10, 2003

By	thesavvybamalady "swblkdiamond" (Prichard, Alabama USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Visit [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is just beautiful. The portrayals were the absolute best and I wasn't disappointed. You have this brother who has AIDS in prison. His father, who didn't give him no support when he needed it, will not visit him in prison until the brother(Obba Babatunde) asks them to. I believe the reason he asks the family to come is because he knew the end was coming, and in his own way he wanted to make peace. In some of the scenes, he baits some of the folks, I felt that was a waste of time, but other than that, it was good. One of the best, and one of the most underrated movies that is out there.