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Dangerous Ground

Play trailer Poster for Dangerous Ground R,  1997,  1h 35m,  Drama/ Crime/ Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 8% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 35% 5,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
8% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 35% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
Thirteen years after his anti-apartheid activism forced him to leave South Africa, Vusi Madlazi (Ice Cube) returns home for his father's funeral. There, he finds his youngest brother, Ernest (Sechaba Morajele), embittered, while middle child Steven (Eric Miyeni) has been selling cocaine for local kingpin Muki (Ving Rhames). After learning Steven has racked up a large debt to his boss, Vusi teams up with his brother's girlfriend, Karin (Elizabeth Hurley), to save Steven before Muki can hurt him.

Critics Reviews

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Mike Clark USA Today Jan 1, 2000
1.5/4
Violent melodrama. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jan 1, 2000
2/4
Dangerous Ground begins with a promising idea and runs away from it as fast as it can. Go to Full Review
Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly May 6, 2005
1/5
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews Nov 5, 2003
5/10
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) Jan 20, 2003
0/5
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jul 29, 2002
2/5
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Audience Reviews

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Hagrid G Jun 3, 2018 Ooooofff. Ice Cube in post apartheid S. Africa. Like he was fazered from Slauson to Johannesburg. Elizabeth Hurley though.
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Cast & Crew

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Darrell James Roodt

Director

Ice Cube

Vusi Madlazi

Elizabeth Hurley

Karin

Ving Rhames

Muki

Eric Miyeni

Stephen Madlazi

Sechaba Morajele

Ernest Madlazi

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Dangerous Ground

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Movie Info

Synopsis Thirteen years after his anti-apartheid activism forced him to leave South Africa, Vusi Madlazi (Ice Cube) returns home for his father's funeral. There, he finds his youngest brother, Ernest (Sechaba Morajele), embittered, while middle child Steven (Eric Miyeni) has been selling cocaine for local kingpin Muki (Ving Rhames). After learning Steven has racked up a large debt to his boss, Vusi teams up with his brother's girlfriend, Karin (Elizabeth Hurley), to save Steven before Muki can hurt him.
Director
Darrell James Roodt
Producer
Gillian Gorfil, Darrell James Roodt
Screenwriter
Darrell James Roodt, Greg Latter
Distributor
New Line Cinema
Production Co
New Line Cinema, Jacaranda Films, Investec Merchant Bank
Rating
R
Genre
Drama, Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 12, 1997, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Nov 18, 2003
Box Office (Gross USA)
$5.1M
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
SDDS, Dolby Digital, Surround
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1), 35mm
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