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Antwone (Derek Luke) is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington). During the sessions, Antwone narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.
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Antwone (Derek Luke) (Creator/DerekLuke) is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington). During the sessions, Antwone narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.
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* CallingTheOldWomanOut: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her horrific treatment of him in childhood.
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* CallingTheOldWomanOut: CallingTheOldManOut: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her horrific treatment of him in childhood.
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--> '''Antwone:''' It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.
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--> '''Davenport:''' "Regard without ill-will despite an offense." That's Webster's definition of forgiveness.
--> '''Antwone:''' Why do I have to forgive?
--> '''Davenport:''' So you can get on with your life.
--> '''Antwone:''' Why do I have to forgive?
--> '''Davenport:''' So you can get on with your life.
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* NWordPrivledges: Mrs. Tate thinks she has these with Antwone and his foster brothers, but even if she did, her ''deplorable'' treatment of them should disqualify her.
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* NWordPrivledges: NWordPrivileges: Mrs. Tate thinks she has these with Antwone and his foster brothers, but even if she did, her ''deplorable'' treatment of them should disqualify her.
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* BlatantLies: Mrs. Tate and her sister greet Antwone with feigned warmth and politeness when he confronts them as an adult. This lasts only until Antwone points out he remembers all of their horrific abuse.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Antwone Fisher definitely, both the fictional depiction and the real-life person.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Antwone Fisher definitely, both the in real-life and his fictional depiction and the real-life person.counterpart. His foster siblings too.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Antwone's journey throughout the movie, and boy did he earn it. In the end, Antwone gets in touch with members of his biological family who treat him lovingly and comfort him over all he's been through, he has a girlfriend and new friends, including Davenport.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Downplayed. Antwone's journey throughout the movie, movie as an adult included finding out that his birth father is dead and boy did he earn it. In his repulsive foster mother and aunt have no remorse for the end, horrific abuse they inflicted on him. Thankfully, by the end of the film, Antwone gets in touch with members of his biological family who treat him lovingly and comfort him over all he's been through, he has a girlfriend and new friends, including Davenport.
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* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. While Antwone gives a very ''well-deserved'' calling out to Mrs. Tate and her sister for their horrific and deplorable treatment of him, they receive no legal punishment for physically and sexually abusing Antwone.
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* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. While Antwone gives a very ''well-deserved'' calling out to Mrs. Tate and her sister for their horrific and deplorable treatment of him, they receive no legal punishment for physically and sexually abusing Antwone. Antwone and his siblings.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Antwone's journey throughout the movie, and boy did he earn it. In the end, Antwone gets in touch with members of his biological family who treat him lovingly and comfort him over all he's been through, he has a girlfriend and new friends, including Davenport.
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* CallingTheOldWomanOut: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her treatment of him in childhood.
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* CallingTheOldWomanOut: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her horrific treatment of him in childhood.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Antwone Fisher definitely, both the fictional depiction and the real-life person.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When she wasn't just abusing him, Mrs. Tate's treatment of Antwone any time he actually did something wrong counts as this.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Thankfully and refreshingly averted. Mrs. Tate's sister sexually abused Antwone '''[[PaedoHunt as a child]]''', and it's treated as the horrific crime that it is.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When she wasn't just abusing him, Mrs. Tate's treatment of Antwone any time he actually did something wrong counts as this.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Thankfully and refreshingly averted. Mrs. Tate's sister sexually abused Antwone '''[[PaedoHunt as a child]]''', and it's treated as the horrific crime that it is.
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* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. While Antwone gives a very ''well-deserved'' calling out to Mrs. Tate and her sister for their horrific and deplorable treatment of him, they receive no legal punishment for physically and sexually abusing Antwone.
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* NWordPrivledges: Mrs. Tate thinks she has these with Antwone and his foster brothers, but even if she did, her ''deplorable'' treatment of them should disqualify her.
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Creator/DenzelWashington's directorial debut, ''Antwone Fisher'' is a 2002 drama based on U.S. Navy officer Antwone Fisher's autobiography ''Finding Fish'', about his experiences coming to terms with his abusive childhood.
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Creator/DenzelWashington's directorial debut, ''Antwone Fisher'' is a 2002 drama based on U.S. Navy officer Antwone Fisher's autobiography memoir ''Finding Fish'', about his experiences coming to terms with his abusive childhood.
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Creator/DenzelWashington's directorial debut, ''Antwone Fisher'' is a 2002 drama film based on U.S. Navy officer Antwone Fisher's autobiography ''Finding Fish'', about his experiences coming to terms with his abusive childhood.
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Creator/DenzelWashington's directorial debut, ''Antwone Fisher'' is a 2002 drama film based on U.S. Navy officer Antwone Fisher's autobiography ''Finding Fish'', about his experiences coming to terms with his abusive childhood.
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''Antwone Fisher'' is a 2002 drama film and DenzelWashington's directorial debut. It's based on the autobiography ''Finding Fish'' about naval officer Antwone Fisher's experiences coming to terms with his abusive childhood.
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Creator/DenzelWashington's directorial debut, ''Antwone Fisher'' is a 2002 drama film and DenzelWashington's directorial debut. It's based on the U.S. Navy officer Antwone Fisher's autobiography ''Finding Fish'' Fish'', about naval officer Antwone Fisher's his experiences coming to terms with his abusive childhood.
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->''"Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?
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->''"Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?alone?\\
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->''Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?''
->''Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?''
->''Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?''
->''Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.''
->''Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?''
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Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his
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Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.
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Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.
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Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.
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Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.
->''Who
Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.
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Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.
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Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.
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Antwone (played by Derek Luke) is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington). During the sessions, Antwone narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.
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Antwone (played by Derek (Derek Luke) is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington). During the sessions, Antwone narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.
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* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her treatment of him in childhood.
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* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: CallingTheOldWomanOut: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her treatment of him in childhood.
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Antwone (played by Derek Luke) is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with psychiatrist Dr. jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington). During the sessions, Antwone narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.
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Antwone (played by Derek Luke) is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with psychiatrist Dr. jerome Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington). During the sessions, Antwone narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.
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* AbusiveParents: Mrs. Tate, Antwone's foster mother, beat him and his foster brothers regularly while they were growing up. Much later, Antwone gets to [[CallingTheOldManOut take her to task]] for it.
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* AbusiveParents: Mrs. Tate, Antwone's foster mother, beat him and his foster brothers regularly while they were growing up.up, and also threatened to burn Antwone with fire and once stole money from him that he'd earned running errands for neighbors. Much later, Antwone gets to [[CallingTheOldManOut take her to task]] for it.
* CharacterDevelopment: Antwone gets several much-needed doses of this throughout the movie, from his sessions with Davenport and his interactions with fellow naval officer Cheryl. At the end of the movie, Davenport acknowledges his own development as a soldier and as a man due to his time spent with Antwone.
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* HairTriggerTemper: For roughly the first half of the movie, Antwone has ''serious'' anger management issues. His sessions with Davenport to deal with this begin as part of his punishment for starting a fight with another sailor.
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* HairTriggerTemper: For roughly the first half of the movie, Antwone has ''serious'' anger management issues. His sessions with Davenport to deal with this begin as part of his punishment for starting a fight with another sailor.sailor who delivered a joke that Antwone interpreted as a racial slur.
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* TheirFirstTime: Antwone and Cheryl get intimate late into the movie, while searching for his biological relatives.
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* TheirFirstTime: Antwone and his love interest Cheryl get intimate late into the movie, while searching for his biological relatives.
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* {{Workaholic}}: Davenport, by his own admission. [[spoiler:It was his way of coping with his relationship with his wife being strained by their inability to have children]].
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* {{Workaholic}}: Davenport, by his own admission. [[spoiler:It was his way of coping with the fact that his relationship with his wife being was strained by their inability to have children]].
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* DisappearedDad and MissingMom: Antwone's father died before he was born, and his mother, who gave birth to him while in prison, gave him up to the foster-care system and never came to reclaim him.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Antwone's father died before he was born, and his mother, who gave birth to him while in prison, gave him up to the foster-care system and never came to reclaim him.
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* TheirFirstTime: Antwone and Cheryl get intimate late into the movie, while searching for his biological relatives.
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* TheirFirstTime: Antwone and Cheryl get intimate late into the movie, while searching for his biological relatives.relatives.
* {{Workaholic}}: Davenport, by his own admission. [[spoiler:It was his way of coping with his relationship with his wife being strained by their inability to have children]].
* {{Workaholic}}: Davenport, by his own admission. [[spoiler:It was his way of coping with his relationship with his wife being strained by their inability to have children]].
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* CallingTheOldManOut: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her treatment of him in childhood.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: BigEater: "I could eat."
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her treatment of him inchildhood.childhood.
--> '''Antwone:''' It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.
* DisappearedDad and MissingMom: Antwone's father died before he was born, and his mother, who gave birth to him while in prison, gave him up to the foster-care system and never came to reclaim him.
* {{Forgiveness}}: A major theme of the movie. It's discussed between Antwone and Davenport.
--> '''Davenport:''' "Regard without ill-will despite an offense." That's Webster's definition of forgiveness.
--> '''Antwone:''' Why do I have to forgive?
--> '''Davenport:''' So you can get on with your life.
* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her treatment of him in
--> '''Antwone:''' It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.
* DisappearedDad and MissingMom: Antwone's father died before he was born, and his mother, who gave birth to him while in prison, gave him up to the foster-care system and never came to reclaim him.
* {{Forgiveness}}: A major theme of the movie. It's discussed between Antwone and Davenport.
--> '''Davenport:''' "Regard without ill-will despite an offense." That's Webster's definition of forgiveness.
--> '''Antwone:''' Why do I have to forgive?
--> '''Davenport:''' So you can get on with your life.
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* ManlyTears: Antwone sheds a few while reading the "Who Will Cry For the Little Boy?" poem to Davenport at the Thanksgiving dinner.
--> '''Davenport:''' ''(at the end of the poem)'' Who ''will'' cry for the little boy, Antwone?
--> '''Antwone:''' [[TearJerker I will. I always do]].
--> '''Davenport:''' ''(at the end of the poem)'' Who ''will'' cry for the little boy, Antwone?
--> '''Antwone:''' [[TearJerker I will. I always do]].
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Antwone (DerekLuke) is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with a psychiatrist, played by Denzel Washington. During the sessions, he narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.
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Antwone (DerekLuke) (played by Derek Luke) is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with a psychiatrist, played by Denzel Washington. psychiatrist Dr. jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington). During the sessions, he Antwone narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.
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* AbusiveParents: Mrs. Tate, Antwone's foster mother, beat him and his foster brothers regularly while they were growing up. Much later, Antwone gets to [[CallingTheOldManOut take her to task]] for it.
* CallingTheOldManOut: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her treatment of him in childhood.
* HairTriggerTemper: For roughly the first half of the movie, Antwone has ''serious'' anger management issues. His sessions with Davenport to deal with this begin as part of his punishment for starting a fight with another sailor.
* TheirFirstTime: Antwone and Cheryl get intimate late into the movie, while searching for his biological relatives.
* AbusiveParents: Mrs. Tate, Antwone's foster mother, beat him and his foster brothers regularly while they were growing up. Much later, Antwone gets to [[CallingTheOldManOut take her to task]] for it.
* CallingTheOldManOut: As explained above, Antwone pulls this on Mrs. Tate for her treatment of him in childhood.
* HairTriggerTemper: For roughly the first half of the movie, Antwone has ''serious'' anger management issues. His sessions with Davenport to deal with this begin as part of his punishment for starting a fight with another sailor.
* TheirFirstTime: Antwone and Cheryl get intimate late into the movie, while searching for his biological relatives.
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Antwone (DerekLuke)is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with a psychiatrist, played by Denzel Washington. During the sessions, he narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.
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Antwone (DerekLuke)is (DerekLuke) is a violent, troubled naval cadet who begins sessions with a psychiatrist, played by Denzel Washington. During the sessions, he narrates details of his childhood experiences, which included beatings, sexual abuse and seeing his best friend shot before his eyes. The two men become friends and help each other deal with their own relationship conflicts.conflicts.
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