The Bang Bang Club (film)

The film tells the story of four young men and the extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures in the days prior to the downfall of apartheid in South Africa. ==Cast==

;The Bang-Bang Club members • Ryan Phillippe as Greg Marinovich • Malin Åkerman as Robin Comley • Taylor Kitsch as Kevin Carter • Frank Rautenbach as Ken Oosterbroek • Neels Van Jaarsveld as João Silva ;Other roles • Patrick Lyster as James Nachtwey • Russel Savadier as Ronald Graham • Alf Kumalo as himself ==Distribution==

The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Entertainment One has distribution rights for Canada. Tribeca Film acquired American distribution rights. It was released theatrically in the United States on 22 April 2011. According to The Numbers, the film was only shown in nine theatres in the US where it earned $124,791. ==Reception==

The Bang Bang Club received mixed reviews. , it holds a 49% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. Judith Matloff, a veteran foreign correspondent and contributing editor at Columbia Journalism Review said that the film was "the latest Hollywood production to get the role of the conflict correspondent wrong". Matloff wrote: "But the reporters and photographers stationed in South Africa at the time were also compassionate human beings who exposed themselves to danger because they wanted to record history. This doesn't particularly come through in the film. Instead, Silver plays to the Hollywood stereotype of journalists as heartless outsiders. After a fun day taking pictures of black people massacring each other, the lads go back to the white suburbs and party — the implication being that the bloodshed is a game to them." ==References==