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'Shadowboxer': Entertaining — in all the wrong ways
by Steve Murray

One of the campiest, most lushly ludicrous movies to come out in a while, "Shadowboxer" is even funnier for the fact that everybody involved seems to take it so seriously. Pay attention, because this gets tricky from the get-go: Helen Mirren stars as Rose, an aging assassin-for-hire suffering terminal cancer, but still whacking folks alongside her lover, Mikey (Cuba Gooding Jr.). Who's also her stepson. OK? ... Read the full review

TO SUM UP
A brutal crime boss wants his wife, Vicky, dead. But the assassins have a change of heart when they find her pregnant. So the trio begin a harrowing life on the run. Driven by fierce love, the assassins protect their new adopted family from present danger, looking to redeem their tragic past.

FILM FACTS ...

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'Shadowboxer'

Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Mirren, Vanessa Ferlito, Stephen Dorff, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Run time: 92 minutes
Release date: July 21, 2006
Rating: R for strong graphic violence and sexuality, nudity, language and some drug use.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C
"Gooding is clearly seeking career rehabilitation by not appearing opposite talking dogs or playing gay on a cruise ship. But his idea of serious acting seems to be looking constipated."