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Keeley Hawes, Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston

This modern crime drama uses the names of the homonymous Shakespeare play's main characters which inspired its plot. White London Metropolitan Police commissioner Sinclair Carver promises to maintain ...( read more  read more... )law and order and further racial integration by recruiting and promoting black and Asian officers, but is taped in the lavatory by a tabloid reporter telling his assistant commissioner Ben Jago there is no black with a brain as big as his dick, and is thus forced to resign. When the death of the black Billy Coates in custody causes racial unrest, John Othello, the only authoritative black police officer, manages to prevent riots by pointing to the press and promising to solve the case; the government names him successor to Carver over his friend Jago's head. The ambitious Ben doesn't show his furious disappointment, but must have his revenge. His plots starts by making sure racists harass Othello's white wife Desdemona, so he can have her 'well guarded' by smooth white superintendent Michael Cass, and then makes John believe he's a bit too friendly with her. Meanwhile he makes sure the Coates investigation ends in an innocent young cop's suicide and a mistrial. Now he plants false DNA proof of Dessie's infidelity - will Othello, who believes his world is crashing down, actually bring it on himself in despair?

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Unrated, 96 min.

Directed by: Geoffrey Sax

Release Date: December 23, 2001

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DVD Release Date: March 12, 2002

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  • rebvodka042099
    August 19, 2008
    rebvodka042099
    The movie isn't much, although it's head and shoulders above all other versions of "Othello" I have seen. But Eamonn Walker's performance blew me away. A wonderful, amazing actor that could have the greatest career, but unfortunately, he went unnoticed.
  • sapphirechaos05
    October 10, 2007
    sapphirechaos05
    read the play...good stuff
  • amandaolson18
    September 25, 2009
    amandaolson18
    A good movie. It followed the basic plot alright, and yet lacked in the area that Jago wasn't as sinister or evil as Iago and in the end Jago got all he wanted and no one knew the truth. However not so in the book. Not that I'm saying the movie had to follow the book exactly b...( read more)ut it is interesting how they decided to make Jago the winner overall.
  • theanswer42
    July 14, 2009
    theanswer42
    I freaking love Christopher Eccleston and Richard Coyle, so that was nice, otherwise I felt it missed the mark a little. I laughed a lot though. At it. So, enjoyable, though probably not the reaction it was going for.
  • whackedman
    May 29, 2009
    whackedman
    watched this in class for school t'was good
  • Soundsofmadness
    March 28, 2009
    Soundsofmadness
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • Ghw12158
    September 11, 2008
    Ghw12158
    not the best version of this story
  • DoctorXQuinzel
    July 20, 2008
    DoctorXQuinzel
    Eccleston, yes please!
  • MECreviews
    March 24, 2008
    MECreviews
    This movie had potential, but fell through the cracks. To bad.
  • perfecthostess
    March 12, 2008
    perfecthostess
    I like the Shakespearian plays even done in a modern version

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