Disgrace
2008 · Movie · R · 120 min · ★ 6.2 · 77% critics
After a scandal costs a university professor his career, he retreats to the South African countryside to stay with his daughter. There, personal fallout collides with a tense social climate, forcing him to face loss, responsibility, and a world he no longer understands.
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Details
- Years
- 2008
- Release date
- 2008-09-06
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 (88 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a heavy, challenging drama about power, guilt, and social tension in South Africa, in the vein of A Dry White Season or Waiting for the Barbarians; Not for you if you want uplifting stories or easy-to-root-for characters.
Pros: thought-provoking themes; strong lead performance; tense atmosphere | Cons: very bleak tone; hard to like characters; upsetting animal scenes
Themes
- based on novel or book
- race politics
- apartheid
Cast & crew
John Malkovich
as David Lurie
Jessica Haines
as Lucy Lurie
Ériq Ebouaney
as Petrus
Fiona Press
as Bev Shaw
- AE
Antoinette Engel
as Melanie Isaacs
Natalie Becker
as Soraya
- AF
Antonio Fisher
as Sidney - Student
- IV
Isabella De Villiers
as Mrs. Cundell - Student
- CM
Cindy Mkaza
as Mrs. Mbeti - Student
- LK
Liezl de Kock
as Student Director
Directed by Steve Jacobs