Navy, on October 5, 2009.Īfter his honorable discharge from the u.s.
Navy veteran, Antwone Fisher was appointed to the honorary rank of Chief Petty Officer by the Master Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Antwone was awarded or earned the following ribbons and medals while serving on active duty: Navy E Ribbon, Two (2) Navy Good Conduct medals, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon with three Bronze Stars. Emancipated from foster care, he found himself in the world alone and homeless, living on the streets of Cleveland, Ohio.Īntwone set on a path of healing when he entered the United States Navy, where he served his country for eleven years nine years at sea, two ashore, four deployments and one forward deployment duty, stationed aboard the USS St. Unable to land another home for him, at age 14, he was relocated to a penal institution for teenaged boys in western Pennsylvania where he remained until he graduated high school at 17. He lived two years in a caring foster home but was removed and suffered twelve years of abuse at the hands of his new foster family. etc.Born in an Ohio prison to a teenage mother, Antwone became a ward of the state and was placed in foster care. I can't help but think that we have all heard this story too many times before."It wasn't my fault because. The father's family was receptive to him, and wanted to welcome him as a family member and begin a relationship. It seemed to me that she could have cared less that he was her son, but he is able to find some closure. Finally finding his father's family, he is able to locate his mother.
Davenport eventually releases Antwone from treatment, suggesting that he try to locate his mother. Now he tells his doctor that as a child he was abused.ĭr. While on leave in Mexico, Antwone gets into another fight and is thrown into jail. Antwone meets a female sailor, Cheryl, and begins a relationship. Treatment goes slowly, and some ev entual progress is made. The doctor is Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington). He is sentenced, demoted, and ordered to begin psychiatric treatment for his violent nature. He joins the Navy where he gets into trouble for injuring another sailor in a fight. All of this is supposed to be the reason for his violent temper. At that time he left and lived a life of crime on the streets, for the next few years. He was placed in a foster home at two, where grew up in what is described (by him) as an abusive home where he lived until age fourteen. She never bothered to claim him when she got out. His teenage mother was in prison, and his father was dead. Pretty good film about a young black man Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke), who wound up in an orphanage as a baby after being born in prison. Vivid, painterly images and the yearning melodies of composer Mychael Danna complete the artistry of the film. Washington demonstrates his ease with actors by drumming up rich emotional intimacy, not without naturally humorous and awkward moments. And eventually he finds the strength to work through his anger and the courage to forge his first romantic relationship with Cheryl (Joy Bryant).Writer Antwone Fisher, making his screenplay debut, achieves an encouraging view of human nature with this story, and first-time director Washington molds it into a film that ranks with GOOD WILL HUNTING and ORDINARY PEOPLE. Fisher and Davenport form a father-son bond (Fisher even adopts the doctor's wife as a kind of surrogate Mom). After a few strained sessions, Fisher navigates through difficult memories of his Cleveland childhood, mostly of life with a vicious foster mother (Novella Nelson) who beats him on a regular basis (and refers to him not by name, but by the n-word) and a foster sister who violates him sexually. Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke) is a young Navy sailor who is on verge of getting booted from the military because of his volatile temper when he is ordered to mandatory sessions with psychiatrist Dr.
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