The Power of One (film)
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The Power of One is a 1992 dramatic film
based on the 1989 novel of the same name
by Bryce Courtenay
. Set in South Africa
during the '30s and '40s, the film centers on the life of Peter Philip 'P.K.' Kenneth-Keith (Guy Witcher), a young English
boy raised during the apartheid era, and his relationship with a German pianist, a black prisoner, and a boxing coach. Directed and edited by John G. Avildsen
, the film stars Stephen Dorff
, John Gielgud
, Morgan Freeman
, Armin Mueller-Stahl
, and Daniel Craig
in one of his early roles.
PK is victimised by all the boys at the school, but most of all by the older boys, led by a teen known as Jaapie Botha or "The Judge." In one incident, PK is urinated on by Botha and other students, earning the name "Pisskop" (pisshead in Afrikaans) and causing him to wet his bed often to avoid confronting the teens. Later when he goes home to attend his mother's funeral, he tells Nanny about the bedwetting. She arranges for the Zulu medicine man Dabula Manzi to come and cure PK of his bedwetting. Dabula Manzi helps PK to conquer his fears by leading him into the dreamworld (he touches the trunk of a charging elephant, causing it to be docile). PK is given a chicken, which he names Mother Courage, and becomes possibly PK's best friend he'll ever have during his childhood.
One day, PK is captured, along with Mother Courage, by the other boys and brought to a mock-trial by Botha, which reveals his new obsession with Hitler and the depths of his hatred for the English. First, Mother Courage is taken, and hung from the ceiling, Botha killing her by hitting her with a rock from a sling. Enraged, PK lunges at Botha, knocking him backwards onto a small flag that pierces his buttocks, humiliating Botha when the other boys laugh at his pain and embarrassment. In anger, Botha orders PK to be hung in the same position as Mother Courage, where Botha hits him in the forehead with a rock from his sling, knocking him unconscious. At that moment a teacher comes in, sees what's happening, and slaps Botha in the face, calling him a "dummkop" (stupid). Afterward, Botha is expelled and reprimanded by his family.
With his mother and pet chicken both dead, and Tonderai and Nanny forced to return to Southern Rhodesia
the outlook seems bleak for PK, as he finds himself alone and depressed in the world. Eventually, PK's grandfather arrives back from the Congo and PK goes to live with him in Barberton
. However, as they fail to connect, his grandfather asks a friend of his to see him, a German pianist and amateur botanist, Karl 'Doc' von Vollensteen (Armin Mueller-Stahl
). Like PK, Doc lost most of his family in Germany, and sees PK as a sort of replacement for his dead grandson. In time, Doc takes PK under his wing and provides him with piano lessons and begins to mentor him.
However, just as World War II begins, Doc is arrested and interned in Barberton Prison for failure to register as an enemy alien. The head of the prison staff, Kommandant van Zyl, a Boer who admires German culture, allows Doc to keep a cactus garden in the courtyard, his piano in his cell, and have unlimited visitation by PK. Doc is dismayed by PK's merely satisfactory marks at school, where smart kids are bullied, and arranges for him to be taught boxing by a Cape-Coloured prisoner named Geel Piet (Afrikaans for "Yellow Peter," played by Morgan Freeman
). Geel Piet becomes another mentor for PK, training him to become an excellent boxer. Piet also teaches PK the mantra of "First with the head, then with the heart", an important phrase that will follow PK's life forever.
PK, now 12 (Simon Fenton
), feels compassion and sympathy for the appallingly treated black prisoners. He and Doc supply contraband tobacco to Geel Piet for distribution to the other prisoners, and PK also becomes their unofficial letter-writer, treating all the tribes alike. As a result, many of the prisoners start calling PK "The Rainmaker." Almost at the end of the war, the Kommandant asks Doc to organise a concert to celebrate the annual visit by the prisons commissioner. At Geel Piet's request, Doc agrees, and the three scheme to create a concert based on subversive singing by the prisoners, whose lyrics indirectly insult and attacks the Afrikaner guards. On the night of the concert, PK is worried by Geel Piet's absence. When he sees a blood-spattered Sergeant Bormann appear at the fence behind the stage, PK runs off and finds Geel Piet lying near death in the yard, the victim of Bormann's bludgeoning. Geel Piet dies in PK's arms.
After the war's end, Doc is freed, but returns to his native Germany. In 1948, PK, now 18 (Stephen Dorff
), is attending the prestigious Prince of Wales School in Johannesburg. He has won the respect of the school headmaster, Prof. St. John (Sir John Gielgud), who arranges a scholarship for PK due to his lack of funds. His best friend is his manager, Morrie Gilbert, who schedules boxing fights for him.
At the Johannesburg Schools Boxing Championship, PK sees an Afrikaner girl (Fay Masterson
) in the audience whom he immediately fancies. Later, via Morrie, he learns that she is none other than Maria Elisabet Marais, daughter of the leading intellectual of the National Party
, Prof. Daniel Marais, who is tipped to soon become head of government.
Since her father obviously will not permit them to date (and more importantly, to disagree with PK's views on apartheid itself), they do so secretly, and she accompanies him to the Alexandra township to a boxing fight against a black boxer, Gideon Duma (Alois Moyo). Even though Gideon loses the bout, Gideon and PK become good friends.
Duma's passion for resisting apartheid prompts PK to return temporarily to the African countryside of his childhood, inspiring him and Morrie to teach English to blacks. This, along with PK's romance with Maria, and his links with an unsegregated gym led by anti-racist Afrikaner boxing coach Hoppie Gruenewald, attracts the wrath of Dr. Marais, who secretly ask PK's child enemy, Jaapie Botha (Daniel Craig
) to spy on him. Throughout the years Botha had risen to the rank of Sergeant in the Afrikaner police and still blames PK for his expulsion from school.
At the same time, his blossoming relationship with Maria begins to deepen, in spite of her father's objections, but comes to a tragic end when, during a police raid on Morrie's uncle's Anglican church during one of the English lessons, Maria is killed by a blow to the head from a policeman's truncheon. Maddened with grief, PK considers leaving Africa to go to Oxford, but Gideon resurrects his spirits when he shows him the enormous difference that learning English is beginning to make to the people.
Events come to a violent climax that night when police, including Botha, raid a party in Alexandra township in search of PK. They enter in full force, indiscriminately shooting and bludgeoning people. As a deranged Botha prepares to shoot the boxing promoter, Elias Mlungisi, PK steps out of hiding, demanding that he end the raid. Both men square off and fight each other, with PK eventually knocking Botha out. As PK tries to care for Mlungisi, his back turned to Botha, Botha reawakens and attempts to shoot PK, but Gideon Duma appears and swings a two-by-four-like a baseball bat, smashing Botha in the head and presumably killing him.
The next morning, both men hide out in the scrubland as a Land Rover goes by loaded with police and then set off into the morning sunshine in their campaign against the regime, PK recounting the various voices in his life, from his mother and nanny, to Doc and Dabula Manzi, and finally Maria.
currently review this movie at 60% fresh, or an overall rating of 5.8/10. Roger Ebert
of the Chicago Sun-Times
gave it two and a half stars out of four, stating that the story "complex to be reduced to a formula in which everything depends on who shoots who" but adds "there are some nice touches."
by Bryce Courtenay
.
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
based on the 1989 novel of the same name
The Power of One
The Power of One is a novel by Bryce Courtenay, first published in 1989. Set in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, it tells the story of an Anglo-African boy who, through the course of the story, acquires the nickname of Peekay. The Power of One is a novel by Bryce Courtenay, first published...
by Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay
Arthur Bryce Courtenay AM is a South-African-born naturalized Australian novelist and one of Australia's most commercially successful authors.-Background and early years:...
. Set in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
during the '30s and '40s, the film centers on the life of Peter Philip 'P.K.' Kenneth-Keith (Guy Witcher), a young English
Anglo-African
Anglo-Africans are primarily White African people of largely British descent who live or come from Sub-Saharan Africa and are Anglophone. A large majority live in South Africa...
boy raised during the apartheid era, and his relationship with a German pianist, a black prisoner, and a boxing coach. Directed and edited by John G. Avildsen
John G. Avildsen
John Guilbert Avildsen is an American film director.-Life and career:Avildsen was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Ivy and Clarence John Avildsen...
, the film stars Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff is an American actor, best known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, Johnny Marco in Somewhere, and for his roles in Blade and Cecil B. DeMented.-Early life:...
, John Gielgud
John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937...
, Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won...
, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician.-Early life:Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia...
, and Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
in one of his early roles.
Synopsis
Born in 1930 to a recently widowed British-born mother on a farm in rural South Africa, P.K. leads a simple life initially, learning the ways of England from his mother and the ways of Africa from his Zulu nanny (Nomadlozi Kubheka), whose son Tonderai is his best friend. However everything changes for the worse for P.K. when the cattle are struck down by plague, causing his mother to have a nervous breakdown. While his mother is recovering, PK is sent to an Afrikaner boarding school. Being the only English boy, he soon becomes the target of serious bullying: Fellow students claim to hold him responsible for the deaths of thousands of Afrikaners during the Second Anglo-Boer War and vow to punish him accordingly.PK is victimised by all the boys at the school, but most of all by the older boys, led by a teen known as Jaapie Botha or "The Judge." In one incident, PK is urinated on by Botha and other students, earning the name "Pisskop" (pisshead in Afrikaans) and causing him to wet his bed often to avoid confronting the teens. Later when he goes home to attend his mother's funeral, he tells Nanny about the bedwetting. She arranges for the Zulu medicine man Dabula Manzi to come and cure PK of his bedwetting. Dabula Manzi helps PK to conquer his fears by leading him into the dreamworld (he touches the trunk of a charging elephant, causing it to be docile). PK is given a chicken, which he names Mother Courage, and becomes possibly PK's best friend he'll ever have during his childhood.
One day, PK is captured, along with Mother Courage, by the other boys and brought to a mock-trial by Botha, which reveals his new obsession with Hitler and the depths of his hatred for the English. First, Mother Courage is taken, and hung from the ceiling, Botha killing her by hitting her with a rock from a sling. Enraged, PK lunges at Botha, knocking him backwards onto a small flag that pierces his buttocks, humiliating Botha when the other boys laugh at his pain and embarrassment. In anger, Botha orders PK to be hung in the same position as Mother Courage, where Botha hits him in the forehead with a rock from his sling, knocking him unconscious. At that moment a teacher comes in, sees what's happening, and slaps Botha in the face, calling him a "dummkop" (stupid). Afterward, Botha is expelled and reprimanded by his family.
With his mother and pet chicken both dead, and Tonderai and Nanny forced to return to Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa. From its independence in 1965 until its extinction in 1980, it was known as Rhodesia...
the outlook seems bleak for PK, as he finds himself alone and depressed in the world. Eventually, PK's grandfather arrives back from the Congo and PK goes to live with him in Barberton
Barberton, Mpumalanga
Barberton is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, which has its origin in the 1880s gold rush in the region. It is situated in the De Kaap Valley and is fringed by the Mkhonjwa Mountains...
. However, as they fail to connect, his grandfather asks a friend of his to see him, a German pianist and amateur botanist, Karl 'Doc' von Vollensteen (Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician.-Early life:Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia...
). Like PK, Doc lost most of his family in Germany, and sees PK as a sort of replacement for his dead grandson. In time, Doc takes PK under his wing and provides him with piano lessons and begins to mentor him.
However, just as World War II begins, Doc is arrested and interned in Barberton Prison for failure to register as an enemy alien. The head of the prison staff, Kommandant van Zyl, a Boer who admires German culture, allows Doc to keep a cactus garden in the courtyard, his piano in his cell, and have unlimited visitation by PK. Doc is dismayed by PK's merely satisfactory marks at school, where smart kids are bullied, and arranges for him to be taught boxing by a Cape-Coloured prisoner named Geel Piet (Afrikaans for "Yellow Peter," played by Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won...
). Geel Piet becomes another mentor for PK, training him to become an excellent boxer. Piet also teaches PK the mantra of "First with the head, then with the heart", an important phrase that will follow PK's life forever.
PK, now 12 (Simon Fenton
Simon Fenton
Simon Fenton is a British actor who has appeared in several different television roles.One of his earliest roles was in Tom's Midnight Garden, and he also appeared in the ITV children's series T-Bag and the Sunstones of Montezuma, Through The Dragon's Eye, and the Russell T Davies series Century...
), feels compassion and sympathy for the appallingly treated black prisoners. He and Doc supply contraband tobacco to Geel Piet for distribution to the other prisoners, and PK also becomes their unofficial letter-writer, treating all the tribes alike. As a result, many of the prisoners start calling PK "The Rainmaker." Almost at the end of the war, the Kommandant asks Doc to organise a concert to celebrate the annual visit by the prisons commissioner. At Geel Piet's request, Doc agrees, and the three scheme to create a concert based on subversive singing by the prisoners, whose lyrics indirectly insult and attacks the Afrikaner guards. On the night of the concert, PK is worried by Geel Piet's absence. When he sees a blood-spattered Sergeant Bormann appear at the fence behind the stage, PK runs off and finds Geel Piet lying near death in the yard, the victim of Bormann's bludgeoning. Geel Piet dies in PK's arms.
After the war's end, Doc is freed, but returns to his native Germany. In 1948, PK, now 18 (Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff is an American actor, best known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, Johnny Marco in Somewhere, and for his roles in Blade and Cecil B. DeMented.-Early life:...
), is attending the prestigious Prince of Wales School in Johannesburg. He has won the respect of the school headmaster, Prof. St. John (Sir John Gielgud), who arranges a scholarship for PK due to his lack of funds. His best friend is his manager, Morrie Gilbert, who schedules boxing fights for him.
At the Johannesburg Schools Boxing Championship, PK sees an Afrikaner girl (Fay Masterson
Fay Masterson
Fay Masterson is an English film, television and video-game actress. She is also a voice actor.-Career:Masterson's performance career began as a dancer which she gave up at age 11 to attend the Brite Lites Academy in Eltham, Southeast London...
) in the audience whom he immediately fancies. Later, via Morrie, he learns that she is none other than Maria Elisabet Marais, daughter of the leading intellectual of the National Party
National Party (South Africa)
The National Party is a former political party in South Africa. Founded in 1914, it was the governing party of the country from 4 June 1948 until 9 May 1994. Members of the National Party were sometimes known as Nationalists or Nats. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a...
, Prof. Daniel Marais, who is tipped to soon become head of government.
Since her father obviously will not permit them to date (and more importantly, to disagree with PK's views on apartheid itself), they do so secretly, and she accompanies him to the Alexandra township to a boxing fight against a black boxer, Gideon Duma (Alois Moyo). Even though Gideon loses the bout, Gideon and PK become good friends.
Duma's passion for resisting apartheid prompts PK to return temporarily to the African countryside of his childhood, inspiring him and Morrie to teach English to blacks. This, along with PK's romance with Maria, and his links with an unsegregated gym led by anti-racist Afrikaner boxing coach Hoppie Gruenewald, attracts the wrath of Dr. Marais, who secretly ask PK's child enemy, Jaapie Botha (Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
) to spy on him. Throughout the years Botha had risen to the rank of Sergeant in the Afrikaner police and still blames PK for his expulsion from school.
At the same time, his blossoming relationship with Maria begins to deepen, in spite of her father's objections, but comes to a tragic end when, during a police raid on Morrie's uncle's Anglican church during one of the English lessons, Maria is killed by a blow to the head from a policeman's truncheon. Maddened with grief, PK considers leaving Africa to go to Oxford, but Gideon resurrects his spirits when he shows him the enormous difference that learning English is beginning to make to the people.
Events come to a violent climax that night when police, including Botha, raid a party in Alexandra township in search of PK. They enter in full force, indiscriminately shooting and bludgeoning people. As a deranged Botha prepares to shoot the boxing promoter, Elias Mlungisi, PK steps out of hiding, demanding that he end the raid. Both men square off and fight each other, with PK eventually knocking Botha out. As PK tries to care for Mlungisi, his back turned to Botha, Botha reawakens and attempts to shoot PK, but Gideon Duma appears and swings a two-by-four-like a baseball bat, smashing Botha in the head and presumably killing him.
The next morning, both men hide out in the scrubland as a Land Rover goes by loaded with police and then set off into the morning sunshine in their campaign against the regime, PK recounting the various voices in his life, from his mother and nanny, to Doc and Dabula Manzi, and finally Maria.
Cast
- Guy Witcher as PK at age 7
- Simon FentonSimon FentonSimon Fenton is a British actor who has appeared in several different television roles.One of his earliest roles was in Tom's Midnight Garden, and he also appeared in the ITV children's series T-Bag and the Sunstones of Montezuma, Through The Dragon's Eye, and the Russell T Davies series Century...
as PK at age 12 - Stephen DorffStephen DorffStephen Dorff is an American actor, best known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, Johnny Marco in Somewhere, and for his roles in Blade and Cecil B. DeMented.-Early life:...
as PK at age 18 - Armin Mueller-StahlArmin Mueller-StahlArmin Mueller-Stahl is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician.-Early life:Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia...
as Doc - John GielgudJohn GielgudSir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937...
as St. John, the Headmaster - Fay MastersonFay MastersonFay Masterson is an English film, television and video-game actress. She is also a voice actor.-Career:Masterson's performance career began as a dancer which she gave up at age 11 to attend the Brite Lites Academy in Eltham, Southeast London...
as Maria Marais - Morgan FreemanMorgan FreemanMorgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won...
as Geel Piet - Daniel CraigDaniel CraigDaniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
as Sgt. Jaapie Botha, the main antagonist - Robbie Bulloch as the teenage Botha
- Dominic Walker as Morrie Gilbert
- Alois Moyo as Gideon Duma
- Marius WeyersMarius WeyersMarius Weyers is a South African actor. He received international attention playing Andrew Steyn in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy . He recently starred in Blood Diamond.-Selected filmography:...
as Professor Daniel Marais - Clive RussellClive RussellClive Russell is a British actor.Clive was born in Reeth, England and brought up in Fife, Scotland.He is a familiar face on British television and has appeared in numerous television series including Boys From the Black Stuff ,Hope And Glory, Neverwhere, Great Expectations, The Mists of Avalon,...
as Sgt. Bormann - Nomadlozi Kubheka as Nanny
Critical reception
Rotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes
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currently review this movie at 60% fresh, or an overall rating of 5.8/10. Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...
of the Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...
gave it two and a half stars out of four, stating that the story "complex to be reduced to a formula in which everything depends on who shoots who" but adds "there are some nice touches."
Book
The movie was based on the book by the same nameThe Power of One
The Power of One is a novel by Bryce Courtenay, first published in 1989. Set in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, it tells the story of an Anglo-African boy who, through the course of the story, acquires the nickname of Peekay. The Power of One is a novel by Bryce Courtenay, first published...
by Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay
Arthur Bryce Courtenay AM is a South-African-born naturalized Australian novelist and one of Australia's most commercially successful authors.-Background and early years:...
.
Differences from the Book
In the original novel by Bryce Courtenay:- PK's given name is never revealed and he gives himself the name "Peekay"
- The chicken is a rooster named Granpa Chook, not a hen named Mother Courage
- Peekay's mother does not die, but becomes a born-again Christian
- Hoppie Grünewald is the name of the train conductor Peekay meets on the way to his grandfather's
- Hoppie, not Geel Piet, is the one who originally inspires Peekay's love of boxing when Peekay watches Hoppie win a fight
- Geel Piet is a 'Cape coloured' - half black & half white
- Doc does not move back to Germany after his release from prison, but remains at his home nearby until he dies
- The important event when Peekay and Doc discover the crystal cave where Doc later dies is not included in the movie
- Nanny's son is Gideon Madoma and Peekay does not know him until they box each other as teenagers
- Peekay's friend Morrie's last name is Levy, not Gilbert, and in the book he is a Jewish boy whose family left Europe to escape Hitler and the Nazis
- Maria is not a character in the book, Peekay does not have a love interest
- Once the police close the school for the native Africans, Peekay and Morrie do not try to start it up again. Instead they handed out books on English they had created themselves with help from a character named Ms. Bornstein (who does not appear in the film) to the Africans
- The police left Peekay alone in the book once the school closed down, however in the movie they pursue him furiously, shooting and presumably killing many people in the village
- Peekay goes to work in the copper mines when he finishes school
- Jaapie Botha turns out to be the unseen diamond driller with whom Peekay is partnered
- Peekay exacts his revenge on Botha at the bar at the copper mines
- The major characters of Lieutenant Smit, Rasputin, Mrs. Boxall, and Ms. Bornstein are completely omitted from the film, as well as many minor characters, including Solly Goldman, Peekay's other friends from the Prince of Wales school, Big Hettie, and Ms. Bornstein's father, Mr. Bornstein. In addition, Peekay's grandfather plays a much smaller part in the movie than in the book
External links
- The Power of One at Rotten TomatoesRotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...