The Caveman's Valentine

 

The Caveman’s Valentine 2001

• Director: Kasi Lemmons
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Colm Feore, Ann Magnusson, Aunjaneu Ellis-Taylor, Tamara Tunie, Jay Rodan, Rodney Eastman, Anthony Michael Hall, Kate McNeil
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Samuel L Jackson - Many
• Colm Feore – Thor, Changeling, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Slings and Arrows, The Chronicles of Riddick, Chicago, Titus, Face/Off
• Ann Magnuson – The United States of Leland, Panic Room, Desperately Seeking Susan
• Aunjaneu Ellis-Taylor – Get On Up, The Help
• Why? Jackson
• Seen:  20 November 2023                

             Romulus (Jackson) was once a student at Juilliard, a concert pianist and a composer. Now he’s known as Caveman because he lives in a kind of cave in a park in New York. He is schizophrenic, paranoid and hallucinatory but he does have moments of lucidity. During one of them he decides to catch the man responsible for the murder of a young friend.

       With the help of his daughter (Ellis-Taylor), a cop, an old friend who remembers him at his best and a couple of new friends who take pity on him and are astounded by his piano skills, he gets himself invited to the suspect’s house party.

       Jackson, in his waist-long dreadlocks, gives us one of his best roles, and that’s saying a lot.

 3 ½ * of 5