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Released one year to the day after the 1995 Million Man March, in which a million African-American men marched peacefully in Washington, D.C. in a bid for greater unity and understanding, Spike Lee's Get On the Bus follows a group of black men who take a charter bus from Los Angeles to the rally in the nation's capital and watches as they interact and air their personal issues and concerns. George (Charles S. Dutton) is the organizer of the trip and de facto leader of the group. Evan Thomas
Oct 16, 1996 Wide
Jan 30, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
All Critics (43) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (5) | DVD (4)
A vital regeneration of a filmmaker's talent as well as a bracing and often very funny dramatization of urgent sociopolitical themes...
While the film assembles a full array of black male stereotypes and conines them to what is essentially a talky one-set play, Mr. Lee stylistically jump-starts this small, earnest film in every way he can.
It's two hours of men sitting on a bus talking, but the talk is alive. Lee keeps the scenes short, so that nothing ever resolves completely.
It's successful at holding our interest -- at making us care, and believe.
An involving, intimate portrait of a group of men gathered for a common purpose.
It all has an artless, ephemeral feel, and 20 years from now people will marvel at the fashions, the landscapes and the attitudes it captures like fragile bugs in amber.
Bythewood's script offers sharp insights into the male psyche, and the fine actors play off one another with real assurance.
Though Lee's deft expertise keeps things pacy and (mostly) plausible, the material can't avoid a certain predictability and, in the end, a preachy sentimentality.
A stirring, heartfelt entertainment from the first frame to the last.
Get on the Bus may well be the best film Spike Lee's made since Do the Right Thing.
Enough lively banter and music, good humor and serious issues are aboard...to make the 3,000-mile journey worth joining.
One of Lee's best -- save for the didactic opening credits, he's rarely been less preachy and more insightful
I thought this would be the ususal...oh how we are hard done by' sort of movie but I did laugh out load several times...
October 10, 2007
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