| Redemption Road | |
| Director: | Mario Van Peebles |
| Producer: | Jeff Balis Rhoades Rader Morgan Simpson |
| Story: | Morgan Simpson |
| Starring: | Michael Clarke Duncan Morgan Simpson Kiele Sanchez Taryn Manning Luke Perry Tom Skerritt |
| Cinematography: | Matthew Irving |
| Editing: | Mark Conte |
| Music: | Tree Adams |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Studio: | Liberty Road Entertainment Heavy Duty Entertainment MVP Films |
| Distributor: | Freestyle Releasing[1] |
| Budget: | $2.3 million[2] |
| Gross: | $29,384 |
Redemption Road (also Black, White and Blues) is a 2010 American film directed by Mario Van Peebles and starring Michael Clarke Duncan and Luke Perry.
In Tennessee, Bailey, a debt-straddled blues guitarist, is escorted across the state by a man named Augy so that he can collect his inheritance from his recently deceased grandfather.
After it played at film festivals such as the Nashville Film Festival and Hollywood Film Festival in 2010, it received a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 26, 2011.[3]
On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 57% based on reviews from 7 critics, with an average rating of 4.5/10.[4] On Metacritic it has a score of 44 out of 100 based on 5 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[5]
Joe Leydon of Variety called it an "emotionally satisfying tale about a young man in need of a mentor and an older fellow in search of forgiveness."[6] Duane Byrge of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "battling-buddy road movie [that] carries viewers on an entertaining ride into blues country."[7] Kimberley Jones of the Austin Chronicle rated it 1 out of 5 stars and called it a mawkish melodrama sunk by Simpson's poor acting.[8]