Brother Future

1991

Drama / History / Sci-Fi

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 278 278

Plot summary

A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.

Director

Roy Campanella II Photo
Roy Campanella II

Top cast

Vonetta McGee Photo
Vonetta McGee as Mortilla
Bernard Addison Photo
Bernard Addison as Zeke
Gene Jones Photo
Gene Jones as Governor Bennett
Frank Converse Photo
Frank Converse as Cooper
720p.WEB
713.35 MB
1164*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 17 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 7 / 10

an excellent history lesson masquerading as fantasy

Petty street hustler T.J. finds himself transported from present-day Detroit to 1822 Charleston, South Carolina. He is captured and sold at a slave auction to a plantation owner "Master Cooper."T.J. is at first arrogant and blissfully ignorant of the struggle for freedom that African-Americans valiantly faced and overcame, and the legacy the brave souls who put their lives on the line (and who sometimes lost those lives) left to those who still fight the ongoing battle for civil rights and equal opportunity.That all changes after T.J. unintentionally gets a young slave he has befriended beaten brutally for one of his own backfired stunts. He helps the young slave learn to read and write and then helps the young man and his wife-to-be escape the Cooper Plantation. Although it is never stated, I got the distinct impression these young runaways were T.J.'s direct ancestors.In his humbling experience/history lesson, T.J. also meets real-life hero Denmark Vesey, a freed former slave who leads a slave revolt, and is hanged with his co-conspirators, becoming a martyr to the cause of freedom.Gifted comic actor Phill Lewis ("City Slickers") is both funny and touching as T.J. Carl Lumbly ("How Stella Got Her Groove Back," "Men of Honor") was properly dignified as the unforgettable Vesey. Lumbley's real-life wife, Vonetta McGee, sparkles as the house slave and psychic Motilla, who turns out to be T.J.'s spiritual guide through his surreal and harrowing experience. Frank Converse, who has made a career playing corrupt cops, crime bosses and other unsympathetic types, was properly cast as Master Cooper, who despite his brutality, was probably a more compassionate slave owner than most.This is an excellent history lesson masquerading as fantasy, and should be a staple in junior high and high schools for Black History Month.
Reviewed by 7 / 10

Kind Of Cheesy At Times, But Teaches You An Important Life Lesson (SPOILERS)

Reviewed by 7 / 10

Powerful

I watched this in middle school with my class and again in college on my own and I think that it's a powerful film for young individuals to watch. It's good education on that time in America when certain people had next to no rights. I think that's it's quite a story for a black individual from (what was then) the present time going back to the times of slavery to learn what it was like and to also enlighten those from the past on what things would eventually be like. The part where the main character discussed Martin Luther King Jr was profound. It's not the most well-made film but still a good one to watch!
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