Caveman's Valentine (The)

  • Caveman's Valentine (The)
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2001
Format : Feature
Running time : 105 (in minutes)

A former family man and pianist studying at Juilliard music school, Romulus Ledbetter (Samuel L. Jackson), now suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and lives in a cave in Inwood Park, New York. He believes that a man named Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant is controlling the world with rays from the top of the Chrysler Building, and that his mind is inhabited by moth-like seraphs. On Valentine's Day, he discovers, left in a tree outside his cave, the frozen body of a young man, Scotty Gates (Sean MacMahon), a homeless drug addict who was close friends with his pal Matthew (Rodney Eastman). Ledbetter is determined to get justice for Scotty, and he's also eager to prove himself to his daughter Lulu (Aunjanue Ellis), now a New York City police officer.

A Crime/Drama/Musical/Mystery film

Directed by Kasi Lemmons

based on George Dawes Green's novel "The Caveman's Valentine" (also known as "Sign of the Killer, The", "Crime Shades", "Caveman's Valentine - Tod eines Engels").

starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore, Ann Magnuson



Samuel L. Jackson...as Romulus Ledbetter
Colm Feore...as David Leppenraub
Ann Magnuson...as Moira Leppenraub
Damir Andrei...as Arnold
Aunjanue Ellis...as Officer Lulu Ledbetter
Tamara Tunie...as Sheila Ledbetter

Soundtrack music by Terence Blanchard

Producers
Michael Shamberg, Danny DeVito, Elie Samaha, Scott Frank, Stacey Sher and Andrew Stevens

Co-producers
James A. Holt, Pamela Abdy and Michael Bennett

Executive producers
Julie Silverman, Eli Selden, Nicolas Clermont, Don Carmody, Shane Kinnear and Samuel L. Jackson

Co-executive producers
Jonathan Weisgal and Stephanie Davis

Associate producer
Mike Drake and Tracee Stanley

Released in the USA on January 19 of 2001

Released by
Universal Focus


DVD available
Release Date: 7/17/2001
Source: Universal Studios
UPC: 251921376242
Original Release: 2001

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