American History X with Edward Norton: DVD Cover

    American History X Director: Tony Kaye Cast: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Fairuza Balk, Beverly D'Angelo

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    • DVD Release Date: 04/06/1999
    • Original Release: 1998
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 2,908

    Viewer Rating: (53 ratings)

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    Features

    Widescreen version; Deleted scenes; Original theatrical trailer; Cast and Crew biographies and filmographies; Interactive menus

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    Scene Index

    Side #1
    0. Scene Selections
    1. Logos/Credits [2:37]
    2. That Night [3:49]
    3. "My Mein Kampf" by Daniel Vinyard [1:38]
    4. A New Assignment [2:54]
    5. The Boys Room [5:01]
    6. "Venice was a nice place to live." [1:16]
    7. The Basketball Game [4:58]
    8. Derek Returns From Prison [6:46]
    9. "Was that Sweeney on the phone?" [4:19]
    10. "American History X" by Daniel Vinyard [4:26]
    11. Shopping Spree [2:52]
    12. The Vinyards [10:00]
    13. Danny and Mother [1:36]
    14. "I go back to that night..." [4:23]
    15. The Party [4:17]
    16. "I am out!" [4:44]
    17. Seth's Gun [1:03]
    18. Derek's Story [:50]
    19. "After two days in that place..." [1:05]
    20. Dirty Laundry [3:00]
    21. Visiting Day [3:07]
    22. The Truth About White Supremacy [3:58]
    23. "You don't get six years for stealing a TV." [3:12]
    24. The Attack [2:34]
    25. "So I was right back where I started." [6:52]
    26. "Tired of feeling pissed off..." [2:45]
    27. Dad [3:59]
    28. Derek's Tattoo [4:00]
    29. "It's 5:40 a.m." [1:47]
    30. A New Morning [2:00]
    31. The Bathroom [5:20]
    32. In The End [2:30]
    33. End Credits. [1:15]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Tony Kaye made his feature directorial debut with this dramatic exploration into the roots of race hatred in America. In a shocking opening scene, teen Danny Vinyard (Edward Furlong) races to tell his older brother, neo-Nazi Derek (Edward Norton), about the young blacks breaking into his car in front of the house, whereupon Derek gets his gun and with no forethought shoots the youths in their tracks. Tried and convicted, Derek is sent away for three years in prison, where he acquires a different outlook as he contrasts white-power prisoners with black Lamont (Guy Torry), his prison laundry co-worker and eventual pal. Meanwhile, Danny, with a shaved head and a rebellious attitude, seems destined to follow in his big brother's footsteps. After Danny writes a favorable review of Hitler's Mein Kampf, black high-school principal Sweeney (Avery Brooks) puts Danny in his private "American History X" course and assigns him to do a paper about his older brother, who was a former student of Sweeney's. This serves to introduce flashbacks, with the film backtracking to illustrate Danny's account of Derek's life prior to the night of the shooting. Monochrome sequences of Derek leading a Venice, California gang are intercut with color footage of the mature Derek ending his past neo-Nazi associations and attempting to detour Danny away from the group led by white supremacist, Cameron (Stacy Keach), who once influenced Derek. Director Tony Kaye, with a background in TV commercials and music videos, filmed in L.A. beach communities. Rated R "for graphic brutal violence including rape, pervasive language, strong sexuality and nudity." Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

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    The Good, the Bad, and the Uglyby Anonymous

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    March 30, 2008: Just like there are two sides to every story this film has a few sides as well. Some people enjoy this film for bringing the issues to light and trying to deal with them. Others enjoy the films message about change and over coming a particular life style. The last and ugliest of all views is people who take this movie as truth. It is sad to say that those people are still living among us today and a re-education of what is right is the only way to correct that behavior. There will always violance in our society because that is human nature but I would love for the violance to be over things of value and not physical apperance or skin color. Edward Norton showed this entire hot button conflict in one performance and it was beautiful.

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    July 12, 2006: i thought this movie was great from begining to end. It tells how even today how strong people feel about blacks, hispanics, and asians.


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