Tagline: "In this world... redemption just comes once."
Length: 94 minutesMPAA Rating: R for language and some strong violent content
Tsotsi Movie Summary:
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this drama is set in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa. The protagonist is a young thug known as Tsotsi, who lives in poverty and is involved in thievery and drugs. Then one day he shoots an affluent woman and drives off in her car. Soon he discovers there's a baby in the back seat, and he takes it to his dwelling. A mother lives nearby, and he forces her at gunpoint to breast-feed the infant. But somehow the child causes Tsotsi to change.
Selected Special Features on the Tsotsi DVD:
• Feature Commentary With Screenwriter/Director Gavin Hood (English Audio)• Alternate Endings (With Optional Commentary From Screenwriter/Director Gavin Hood)
• Deleted Scenes (With Optional Commentary From Screenwriter/Director Gavin Hood)
• The Making of Tsotsi (English Audio)
• Screenwriter/Director Gavin Hood’s Short Film The Storekeeper (With Optional Commentary From Gavin Hood)
• Music Video
Formats Available: The above information is on the Tsotsi DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
