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Stander [DVD]

Thomas Jane (Actor), Ashley Taylor (Actor), Bronwen Hughes (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
IMDb7.0/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, AC-3, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor Dexter Fletcher, Thomas Jane, Julia Verdin, Bronwen Hughes, David O'Hara, Ashley Taylor, Grosvenor Park; Imaginarium; Seven Arts Pictures See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 56 minutes
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When white police officer Andres Stander (played by Tom Jane) suffers a crisis of conscience after his involvement in a riot in Johannesburg, he goes from law enforcer to law breaker, becoming one South Africa's most notorious bank robbers.

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Stander is the compelling, true story of Andre Stander (superbly played by Tom--formerly Thomas--Jane), an Apartheid-era, South African police captain whose disgust over official repression of the nation's black majority--and his own, lethal participation in those policies--leads to his career as a bank robber. Captured, imprisoned, and on the run after a successful escape, Stander joins two partners (Dexter Fletcher, David Patrick O'Hara) in a long string of bank heists across the country, uncertain of his destiny but yearning for his estranged wife (Deborah Unger). Co-screenwriter and director Bronwen Hughes (Forces of Nature) can't quite overcome the built-in redundancy of the film's latter half (lots of robberies, lots of disguises). But despite all the gunplay, Stander is most interesting for its understated fascination with the enigma of its anti-hero, who wreaks havoc yet is peculiarly committed to atoning--at great pain--for those actions he considers most unethical. --Tom Keogh

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.54 x 0.75 x 0.07 inches; 3.84 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Bronwen Hughes
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, AC-3, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 56 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ December 21, 2004
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Thomas Jane, Ashley Taylor, David O'Hara, Dexter Fletcher
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Julia Verdin
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000683VHK
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 117 ratings

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Customers find this movie based on a true story to be excellent, with strong performances and incredible acting. They appreciate the film's quality, with one customer noting it's a great period piece.

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17 customers mention "Story quality"15 positive2 negative

Customers find the movie's story compelling and interesting, particularly noting that it is based on true events.

"...it on a Friday night and it was a great movie full of action and a true story as well the acting and production was very good if you like action..." Read more

"A must watch, especially for Thomas Jane fans. This is the only physical media format available for this title, so definitely pick this one up!..." Read more

"...The story rarely slowed down to the point that the story lost its direction...." Read more

"What a story and anaction-adventure. Stander is excellent. One of the most interesting stories based on a real life I have seen in a long time...." Read more

12 customers mention "Movie quality"12 positive0 negative

Customers find the movie excellent, with one customer describing it as a great period piece and another noting it's full of action.

"We watched it on a Friday night and it was a great movie full of action and a true story as well the acting and production was very good if you like..." Read more

"...Great case and quality of packaging also!" Read more

"Stander was a very good film about the real-life exploits of Andre Stander, Lee McCall and Allan Heyl who were known collectively as The Stander Gang..." Read more

"Great movie with great acting. Only thing is... story isnt factual at all. took a d-bag and turned him into a hero...." Read more

7 customers mention "Acting"7 positive0 negative

Customers praise the acting in the movie, with one customer highlighting Thomas Jane's performance and another noting the expert direction by Bronwen Hughes.

"...great movie full of action and a true story as well the acting and production was very good if you like action movies with a true story behind them..." Read more

"...The film was expertly directed by Bronwen Hughes and as said earlier had strong performances from all the main leads in the film...." Read more

"...Also keeps you involved, and makes you care about the characters. Just a shame the real dude wasnt the same guy portrayed in the movies...." Read more

"...Stander, former cop turned bank robber, stands apart because it is believable and generally compelling...." Read more

4 customers mention "Performance"4 positive0 negative

Customers praise the performances in the movie, with one specifically highlighting Tom Jane's excellent portrayal.

"...The scenes where Stander commits these bank robberies were shot well and showed just how daring Andre Stander really was in his exploits...." Read more

"...Tom Jane's performance is excellent. You truly believe he is a native South African police detective. His accent is spot on!!" Read more

"Perfect!" Read more

"very satisfied with end result, keep up good work ." Read more

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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible action packed true story
    Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024
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    We watched it on a Friday night and it was a great movie full of action and a true story as well the acting and production was very good if you like action movies with a true story behind them then you should definitely check it out you may not recognize some of the actors but this is a very interesting film that we heartily recommend
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing movie. Only format available.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
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    A must watch, especially for Thomas Jane fans. This is the only physical media format available for this title, so definitely pick this one up! Great case and quality of packaging also!
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  • A. Sandoc
    4.0 out of 5 stars Tom Jane does a superb job in this thrilling and crackling true story
    Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2006
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    Stander was a very good film about the real-life exploits of Andre Stander, Lee McCall and Allan Heyl who were known collectively as The Stander Gang. The Stander Gang was well-known for their daring and reckless bank robberies in their homeland of South Africa. The film stars Tom Jane (The Punisher, Deep Blue Sea) as the title character with Dexter Fletcher (Band of Brothers and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and David Patrick O'Hara (Braveheart) rounding out the rest of the Stander Gang.

    The film starts off introducing Andre Stander as a highly decorated member of the South African Police Force in the late 1970's and the beginning of the anti-apartheid movement. It shows Andre Stander's growing disgust and disenchantment in his government's racist apartheid policies and his own role in enforcing it. After a violent and brutal break-up of an anti-apartheid protest gathering where Stander kills a protestor, the film begins to move into meat of the story. Stander's disenchantment with the government causes him to commit bank robberis in audacious fashion as a way to rebel and defy the very state he has sworn to protect and serve.

    The scenes where Stander commits these bank robberies were shot well and showed just how daring Andre Stander really was in his exploits. There's even a sequence where he returns to the scene of his most recent crime to investigate the robbery. A robbery he just committed just hours before during his lunchtime. These scenes and the later ones when he's joined by two other bank robbers shows Tom Jane at his finest. I think many would be hard-pressed not to think Jane's performance as a South African, accent and all, wasn't authentic. His charisma ruled throughout the film and was mostly evident through the many bank robbing sequences. He truly gave Andre Stander the air of a Robin Hood character who, despite his criminal acts, became a sort of folk antihero.

    The second half of the film details the exploits of Stander after his incarceration for his bank robberies while a captain of the South African Police Force. It's here that we meet the rest of Stander's Gang as he recruits fellow inmate and outlaws Lee McCall and Allan Heyl. Even the way Stander engineers his escape from the work-prison he has been sent to shows his daring in thumbing his nose at the state and the police he used to be a part of. Dexter Fletcher was very good as the twitchy and less stable Lee McCall whose nerves begin to fray the bolder and bolder the gangs bank robberies become. David Patrick O'Hara was also good as the very professional bank robber Allan Heyl. Heyl didn't have the charisma that Stander had, but he was the rock which kept the robberies from spiraling out of their control. It was great to see O'Hara in another strong role. Some might recognize him as the scene-stealing Stephen, the Irish rebel who joins William Wallace's fight against the English during Mel Gibson's Braveheart.

    The rest of the film was pretty much one bank robbery after the other with the Stander Gang always one step ahead of the police task force put together to capture them. In a twist of fate, the task force was headed by Stander's former friend in the police force Cor Van Deverter whose intimate knowledge of Stander's tactics and thought-processes helps in slowly closing the noose around the gang. There's abit of a repitition in the robberies and the getaways, but they serve an important purpose of slowly building up the Stander Gang's folkhero status amongst the population. It also showed the effect it had on some of the members of the gang. As popular and infamous the gang had become they were still outlaws who knew that sooner or later their luck would run out and they'd either be put back into prison or killed outright. For some it was the latter and for others the former.

    Throughout the film, one could sense that some of the motivations behind Andre Stander's actions as a bank robber was to assuage his guilt over the sanctioned acts of brutality he had to perform to protect the apartheid government of his nation. The film and the story being told was almost a full-lenght film of Stander's attempt to make up for his past transgressions. And what better way to do this than use the system of the state against itself. He himself points out that a white man could get away with anything when most of the policemen in the city were called away to deal with an emergency regarding the black majority population. Stander realizes this to be true and his second career as a bank robber was born. The film only hints at him being a very good policeman, but the majority of the film shows just how much better he was as a criminal.

    The film was expertly directed by Bronwen Hughes and as said earlier had strong performances from all the main leads in the film. The story rarely slowed down to the point that the story lost its direction. Every scene always led to the next part of the story being told until the very bitter end. Stander was a very good film anchored by a fine performance from Tom Jane. The film showed a brief glimpse into South Africa's apartheid past and how one individual's decision to defy the state led to a brief, but daring life of a modern-day Robin Hood.
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  • Jim Morrison
    5.0 out of 5 stars Damn good movie.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2018
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    Great movie with great acting. Only thing is... story isnt factual at all. took a d-bag and turned him into a hero. (factually speaking) but does have great re-watch value. Does have incredible acting. Also keeps you involved, and makes you care about the characters. Just a shame the real dude wasnt the same guy portrayed in the movies. Unless he really was, and the South African Gov. had a problem with the story. Who knows?
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  • D. Killary
    5.0 out of 5 stars Shipped fast, good story.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2018
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    Any Thomas Jane fan will like this adaptation of a true story.
    TJ really shows his acting chops.
    Someone once said "You play one roll for the love of it and another to pay the bills".
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  • Don
    3.0 out of 5 stars What motivated him?
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2021
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    while I can understand his frustration with apartheid SA that in and of itself does not explain why this cop went off the deep end? In the 6 month run the gang had it doesn't seem as though they even enjoyed the spoils, oh sure they bought stuff - kind of stupid high maintenance stuff! Stander obviously felt guilty for the murder of a black man so much so that he takes a beating from his victims father....this could be the one redeeming quality of this film? He wasn't a revolutionary and his criminal run seemed self indulgent no redemption for himself or the ones he oppressed he died in the street like a common thief, sad really.
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  • Directionline
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great film
    Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2014
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    What a story and anaction-adventure. Stander is excellent. One of the most interesting stories based on a real life I have seen in a long time. Tom Jane's performance is excellent. You truly believe he is a native South African police detective. His accent is spot on!!
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  • Francis James
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stander
    Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2009
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    Stander was amazing in my opinion. I actually never heard of Thomas Jane until i watched '61' he played a good mickey mantle and then i caught 'the punisher' remake with him, also very good. Searched Thomas Jane movies and found Stander for $3. Had to see it especially because it was a true story which interests me.
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  • Beatci
    5.0 out of 5 stars cooler film
    Reviewed in Germany on November 28, 2024
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    interessante story, gut erzählt, mir hat der film gefallen
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  • Anthony Campo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great
    Reviewed in Canada on February 16, 2022
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    Showed up on time as described
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  • Tommy Dooley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent true life based crime caper
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2015
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    Andre Stander was a happily married Captain in the South African Police during the dark days of apartheid. He worked at a time when it was compulsory to do `riot duty' in the township ghettoes, this is covered in the film. Then he decided one day to rob a bank and by all accounts he ruddy well loved it. He went on a massive crime spree - but it was not too long before his erstwhile colleagues caught him - but the adventure was not about to end because of a pesky prison sentence - this purports to tell his story.

    Now I say purports because there has been a bit of licence taken with his actual story, which was obviously a deliberate choice of the film makers, but if this whets your appetite then do check him out further. Portrayed as a frustrated Robin Hood sometimes, and a clear career criminal at others he appears to have been someone that was hard to define in any neat way.

    The film though is really well made with great period detail and some fine performances and indeed accents - Thomas Jane as Stander shows what an impressive actor he can be and why he should get better gigs. Ably supported by Dexter Fletcher and Deborah Kara Unger as Stander's wife Bekkie; this is for those who like a bit of a thriller and a bit of realism thrown into the mix - one I missed first time round and am glad I finally got to see it.
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  • Brendan Ray Cyrus
    5.0 out of 5 stars TRUE STORY
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2008
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    Frequently miscast as an action hero, the edgy Thomas Jane hits character paydirt with this gripping crime caper.Jane plays Andre Stander, a real life 70's South African Police Captain turned Bank robber.
    Stander was one of the least watched and most amazing films of the year. Tom Jane gives a startling, heart ripping, pulse pounding portrayal of outlaw Andre Stander. Stander was the notorious Johannesburg police officer shocked and revolted by what he witnessed as an officer in apartheid driven South Africa. To prove what's wrong Stander embarks on a career of crime - bank robberies to be specific, and he finds he's good at it. Very good indeed.

    Though we know what he's doing is inherently wrong, one cannot not route for Stander as he and his gang become more and more daring and flamboyant with their bank heists.

    The supporting cast is up to the challenge and Deborah Kara Unger gives a standout performance as Stander's much put-upon wife whom he never stops loving.

    Rare is the film that combines such strong social and political commentary with rip-roaring action adventure. This is a truly remarkable effort from director Bronwyn Hughes who'd previously given us fluff like "Harriet the Spy" and the Ben Affleck challenged "Forces of Nature." If she makes more films like "Stander" - she could be collecting gold statuettes.
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  • WDP
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on October 25, 2016
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    excellent
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