title: Redemption Road
text: # Redemption Road
  
  Redemption Road (also Black, White and Blues) is a 2010 American film directed by Mario Van Peebles and starring Michael Clarke Duncan and Luke Perry.
  
  ## Premise
  
  In Tennessee, Bailey, a debt-straddled blues guitarist, is escorted across the state by a man named Augy so that he can collect his inheritance from his recently deceased grandfather.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Michael Clarke Duncan as Augy
  * Morgan Simpson as Bailey
  * Luke Perry as Boyd
  * Tom Skerritt as Santa
  * Taryn Manning as Jackie
  * Kiele Sanchez as Hannah
  * Melvin Van Peebles as Elmo
  * Cassandra Lawson as Bailey’s Young Mother
  
  ## Release
  
  After it played at film festivals such as the Nashville Film Festival and Hollywood Film Festival in 2010, it received a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 26, 2011.
  
  ## Reception
  
  On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 57% based on reviews from 7 critics, with an average rating of 4.5/10. On Metacritic it has a score of 44 out of 100 based on 5 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
  
  Joe Leydon of Variety called it an "emotionally satisfying tale about a young man in need of a mentor and an older fellow in search of forgiveness."
  
  Duane Byrge of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "battling-buddy road movie [that] carries viewers on an entertaining ride into blues country." Kimberley Jones of the Austin Chronicle rated it 1 out of 5 stars and called it a mawkish melodrama sunk by Simpson's poor acting.
  
  