Poor Boy's Game

With a great script and keen direction, Poor Boy's Game is both a great sports film and a gripping tale of racial conflict and poverty in Halifax. ... Full Review

Glover is truly a great talent. Overall, Poor Boys Game is a worthy effort, and worth a watch. Sutherland delivers a stellar performance, subtle and nuanced, and perfect for his part. ... Full Review

Boxing day Clement Virgo returns to TIFF with the powerful Poor Boys Game By Katrina Onstad September 5, 2007 For better or worse, Virgo, now 39, has been tagged arty, but he seems eager to shake it off. Hes a larger-than-life figure, Virgo admits. ... Full Review

the grim setting is merely the backdrop for Canadian nice-guy "social issue" tripe.... ... Full Review

Poor Boy's Game is a tense, violent, explosive film that looks at what filmmaker Virgo calls the tribalism that divides us. The film does not pull its punches, and though uneven, is compelling; the big surprise here is Rossif Sutherland. ... Full Review

The Pan African Film Festival , the cinematic component of the National Black Arts Festival , will screen more than 50 films Friday through July 27 at the Woodruff Arts Center's Rich Theatre. ... Full Article

February of 2008 marks the release of Poor Boy's Game, starring Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland. Poor Boy's Game is a stirring film that will challenge any stereotype you have about interracial social development. ... Full Article

Starring Rossif Sutherland, Danny Glover, Laura Regan. Directed by Clement Virgo. 104 minutes. At the Royal. 14A Toronto's Clement Virgo sometimes gets so carried away with the strong ideas and characters of his films he forgets to deliver a satisfying... ... Full Article

By Travis Mackenzie Hoover The opening scenes of Poor Boys Game got my hopes up. As it intercut scenes of the prison violence of a white racist (Rossif Sutherland) with the black family of the young man he beat to... ... Full Article