The Power of One (1992)

The Worst Film Ever

That was an excellent one.

Load of rubbish!!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

this movie was fairly good, i watched it in my Africa through film class and it didn't completely suck but it was very over dramatic. It has way to many Disney characteristics to be a very good movie. Unlike the guys comment above this, if you put more famous actors in it, no matter how many it still wouldn't win an Oscar, but it was fairly descent showing the ugly side of humanity, but they still portrayed the Africans as being somewhat helpless. Although they wanted to help themselves and they wanted to learn to read and write English, it still portrayed them as being to weak to do it alone so they need the whites to do it not many movies about Africa portray they whites as weak but they all seem to show the blacks as somewhat inferior. I really think they need to work on fixing that. However if you are looking for a good film about based in Africa get the movie Somewhere In Africa. Its a foreign film with subtitles. Its a true story about a Jewish family who leaves Germany in about 1937 because they feel something bad is going to happen soon. It is based around the daughter and how she adapts to Africa and how here parents begin to separate emotionally (and physically) its a very good movie i recommend that any day above the power of one, but if you really wanna see The Power Of One, its not worth not seeing.

I watched this film several years ago and it brought back many memories of my life in South Africa. While living there I saw many things that were portrayed in the film so can relate to it. I thought all the actors were very good and but Morgan Freeman's role was truly exceptional and should have won him an Oscar for his portrayal. The accents were very much true to life even though the main characters were not South African. I found the story line very thought provoking and the music was so good I went out and bought the CD. I think it's about time they showed this film on TV as many things can be learnt from this. I feel this film is on a Parr with another South African film called Serafina which dealt with the riots in Soweto.

Hi, This is a wonderful movie to invite youth to work for a goal, to do something about injustice.this is also a movie you must have in your home collection, that is why I want to buy it, but I'm looking for it in Spanish o with subtitles. If anyone can help me I'll be thankfully.To hath this movies it was a good experience, because I'm in a youth group, and we had a moment to talk about this guy PK and make some comparison to our life as young people, and how to use our talents to do something about, and change our little world...Hope to be able to buy this movie

The Power Of One is based on a novel by the very talented Bryce Courtenay. The sequel novel,Tandia, which picks up right where The Power of One left off is equally moving and compelling reading.I am promptly going to go out and read everything else he has written. Both The Power of One and Tandia have moved me beyond words. I am a white South African girl who spent 19 years of my life in SA. I led a very privileged, sheltered childhood growing up in South Africa. I was just 15 when apartheid fell apart. My parents were not racist and in fact my father dedicated his life to working as a doctor in a very poor area but I still , unbelievably, never really had a very clear picture of the horror of apartheid until Mr Courtenay outlined it so vividly in these books.(as I said I was sheltered as a white child)I feel extraordinarily blessed and lucky to have directly avoided the violence and sickness that invaded my country for so long just because I was lucky enough to be born with white skin. I now live in the States but South Africa will always be home. I wept most of the way through both books. I have never been so moved in my life.Mr Courtenay summed up perfectly the collective guilt that white South Africans must carry with them forever more for our people's legacy of hate and brutality and oppression Even if we ourselves are not guilty - our people are guilty.He also, of course, inspires us to believe that one person can make a difference and that sanity,justice and compassion can win in the end even if the fight is long and hard.For those of you who think the characters are too stereotyped- in some aspects you are right. Not all Afrikaaners are the evil, racist villains that are portrayed in the books . However, I certainly encountered people growing up with unbelievable racism, fear and hate who do match some of the characters in the book.So there is truth to his characters also. I have no doubt that the brutality was accurate. One only has to look at historical events in SA history to confirm that. Thank you Mr Courtenay for your wonderful gift and for sharing it with the world. As for the movie: I must admit it has been years since I happened upon it on television late at night. I do remember being quite swept up in the film but then being disappointed with the direction they chose to take it in. A Hollywood ending on what could have been a remarkable African movie.I do understand that film is a completely different medium and changes were necessary to adapt the book to film. Still I cannot help being disappointed with some of the changes that I deemed uneccessary such as the changing of Peekay's name from the wonderful, mystical"The Tadpole Angel" or "onoshobishobi ingelosi" to "The rainmaker" Come on! That's lame! The rainmaker?!That has none of the same feeling the other names invoke.The addition of the girlfriend just to give Peekay a love interest is unnecessary fluff and her character not well developed enough to warrant such an addition.Nonetheless, the film is still worth seeing. I must say that I truly do hope that someone else re-makes this and does a better job.Tandia would make a fantastic film also. I am going to buy a copy on DVD and re-watch it and the post my thoughts here after refreshing it in my mind. I highly recommend reading both The Power Of One and Tandia to all interested in the history of apartheid in South Africa or just those looking for a good drama and a fascinating stories with strong characters.Even if you hate to read and are intimidated by the thought of reading such large books- just start- I guarantee you, you won't be able to put both these books down!If you haven't seen the film or read the books, I guess you should watch the film first. Otherwise you will be sorely disappointed and outraged at all the negative changes and you won't be able to truly enjoy the film for what it is: a nice attempt at an adaptation of a marvellous book.