Tsotsi

Rating: R Drama/Crime
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto

This is the story of a 19-year-old South African gangster named Tsotsi. On a rainy night, after a fight with his friend in a bar, he hides in a rich residential area. Randomly enough, while stealing a car, he shoots the owner in a fit of rage. Driving away from the scene, he realizes that there is a 3-month-old baby in the back seat. Tsotsi ends up bringing the baby home with him and forces a woman, who has a baby of her own, to breast feed the child. Although the woman is initially afraid of Tsotsi, she slowly brings Tsotsi around to a better way of life. Tsotsi has to eventually face himself and his past.