Unconditional
Unconditional
PG-13 | 21 September 2012 (USA)
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Samantha Crawford is living a storybook life: she’s happily married, she lives on a ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she’s told and illustrated since childhood have become published books. When her husband Billy is killed in a senseless act of violence, Sam loses her faith and her will to live. But a death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her oldest friend. As Sam watches “Papa” Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that no matter life’s circumstances, the love of God is always reaching out to us.

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CommentsXp Best movie ever!
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
gmorris-45778 It's a story of love and loss! It's is a murder mystery! It's a true story you want to see! People were hit by cars and guns were drawn. This is a total tear jerker! God played many roles in people's lives throughout the movie. The movie had a good overall vibe. But I also thought it was cheesy, like a little childish, at some of the cuts from scene to scene, especially a girl just running around the hood by herself. But over all very good movie.
connerodinarthur Unconditional is a dramatic film based on a true story revolving around the struggle of the main character Sam (Lynn Collins), and her struggle with life after her husband Billy (Diego Klattenhoff) was murdered and robbed in an alley. Sam struggled to fight back her inner demons and attempted to commit suicide when all of the sudden she heard a scream coming from a nearby street. After approaching the street, Sam sees a little girl named Keisha (Gabriella Phillips) struck by a car while her brother Macon (Kwesi Boakye) was screaming in fear that she might not be alive. Sam rushes to the hospital with the little girl and she survived with minor injuries. It was later found out that Keisha and Macon were roaming the streets late at night to steal food due to their extreme hunger. While at the hospital, Sam is re-united with her childhood best friend Joe. I personally love the scene where they re-united and the audience could see the surprise in the actor's eyes. Joe tells Sam they should hangout and catch up sometime soon. A few days later, Sam goes to visit Joe where she discovers he helps mentor kids in the hood to prevent them from making mistakes in life. The kids grew on Sam and she finally found hope in life. The kids were invited to Sam's farm to meet her horse, dance, eat and stay the night. Alike to Sam, Joe had a dark past. Joe was in prison for 8 years due to hacking into a bank. While in prison, Joe was stabbed with a shank. Ever since being stabbed, Joe needs a daily kidney dialysis. While at the barn, Joe collapsed in his guest room due to his kidneys failing and was immediately rushed to the hospital. The doctors stated that Joe may not survive because his body may reject the kidney transplant. There was also a possibility that Joe could die before the kidney arrives. Sam had lost her husband and she feared the worst that she could lose her best friend. Sam became full of rage and anger over her life so she went after the man who she had though killed her husband wanting revenge. Some positive things I thought about this film would be the setting. I love how the setting transitions from the worst parts of the hood to a beautiful farm and I love how it shows the reaction of the children when they get to experience nature like they never have before. I also loved the story and found it inspiring on so many levels that Sam went through the death of her husband and managed to cope with it and make herself happy. I enjoyed that the actors went from having nothing to being extremely happy. Sam was on the brink of death with depression but she found hope in life. The kids Macon and Keisha didn't have someone to look up to except for Joe but they found Sam. Everyone in the film went from a low point in their life to having a family. There are also some negative things about the film. The transition into flashbacks when Sam would think back to when her husband had been alive tended to be hard to indicate. I would be watching a scene not knowing it was even a flashback and confused on why she was talking to her husband when he had passed away. Another negative side of the film would be the mood. I feel as if the movie was sad until the ending. The movie starts off with Sam's husband dying and her trying to commit suicide then transitions into Keisha getting hit by a car and lastly transitions to Joe on his dialysis machine. Throughout the movie all the actors did was face struggles and there's a lack of happiness and hope. I loved the characters and how they fit into the movie. I was always on the edge of my seat when a character's secrets or past would get revealed. I was very surprised when I had seen that Joe had to go to prison for 8 years but he still manages to be such a positive guy. It was also nice to see that after Keisha went through her mom's death, she began to talk again after going to the farm. I enjoyed the way the actors portrayed the characters as well. Kwesi Boakye did a great job at playing Macon and acting like a bad kid and bad sibling when in reality he was a nice kid. Lynn Collins in my opinion looked like the original person the true story is based off of so she was the perfect match for the role. In my opinion I thought this was a unique movie. If it wasn't based on a true story, I'd think it was an average film that was decent but the fact that this movie is based on a true story makes it breathtaking. I enjoyed the setting and characters more than most movies I watch. If I could rate Unconditional out of 10 I'd give it a 7.5/10.
henrykenya This movie a brings out so such emotion in you that most movies cannot. The setting, the background story will just touch your heart like it did mine, the film just shows a great view of how things in life can just tear you apart but you need to have faith cause when bad things happens, good luck is on the way. This film can open your eyes to events that are happening in everyday life that you might not even think can happen to someone, someone in this world doesn't have it like others do and this movie shows you that. Even through you're going through a hard life imagine someone going though worse, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be happy about it you're going through hard times to but just sit back and think about all the good in life can bring you. This film shows that anything can happen with just a blink of the eye but the good thing can last a long time. What I like about the film was it was real emotions, you can feel the pain of Sam's lost one, the hurt in her voice makes you just wanted to cry. The background is true so many kids grew up fatherless and it hard for them because they don't express that hurt emotion to others, they feel like they're not wanted. I like that to be able to connect to a movie and put myself in their shoes, the movie was a little old school but it brings back memories of me and my family cookouts. What I didn't like was the way they portrayed the movie, all because Antony had a red hooded and he lived in the ghetto he was assumed to be the killer. I wish they told us a little more about Macon's backstory and when and where did Joe and Denise get married. Papa Joe was a caring man and had a thing going for him but he should have ever taken the bet, made his body ill. Sam was a children's book write; she was a great person just lost her self who let the saddens consumed her life too much. Macon was a little misunderstand boy he thought he needs to steal to get attention from people and be a bad boy cause his friends were, but he was a hard-working little boy that just needed some fatherly love in his life. If you're reading my comment take a minute to understand where I coming from. This movie inspires so many people to do something for others, to see the greatness in life even when they'll feeling down you should stand up and breath in the fresh air and know that you are truly free. You should watch this movie with an open-minded to really understand how the movie is trying to betray it setting.
u-40945 The movie Unconditional is about a guy and girl who were childhood friends. They were reunited after many years and many hardships. Sam, the main character, is getting over her husband's death while at the same time searching for his killer. Some really good aspects of the movie were how Sam and Joe were always there for each other. They are both good people for their roles. I really liked the child actors and actresses, they were very good for the age and added lots of emotional and touching aspects to the movie. One thing I didn't like about the movie was most scenes seemed very staged, though it's a movie, it should seem more realistic. Other than that, all I have to complain about is the poor choice of music. I feel none of the music went with the movie at all. In conclusion, I'd give this movie a 4 out of 5 stars due to very many good scenes and actors but the lack of good small details takes away a star.