Fruitvale Station

Genre:

Biography, Drama

Director:

Ryan Coogler

Starring:

Michael B. Jordan, Kevin Durand

Release Date:

Friday 12 July

      Fruitvale Station (originally titled Fruitvale) is a 2013 American independent drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. It is based on the true story of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed by police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Oakland, California Fruitvale rapid transit station.

The film stars Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant. It is the first feature-length film by Coogler, a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Forest Whitaker is one of the film's producers.

      Kevin Durand and Chad Michael Murray play the two BART police officers involved in Grant's death. The names of the officers were changed for the film.

Fruitvale Station debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Film. The film is scheduled to be released in theaters July 26, 2013.

Plot

      The film tells the story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, and his experiences on the last day of his life, before he was fatally shot in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

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External links:

"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 July 2013. Web.  13 July 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.

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