In one world, Rasheed Smith (Cory Hardrict) is a hardened criminal who has spent years building his drug empire. In another, he is an ambitious architect who has been working his way up the corporate ladder. Uniquely illustrated through parallel lives, Destined explores how one man's future can be changed by a single moment. Facing everything from street violence to corporate corruption, Rasheed navigates his role in each world while demonstrating that on any path, life is never simple in the journey toward fulfilling your destiny.
9 November 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 March 1982, Ohio, USA
9 December 1978, Carmel Valley, California, USA
17 May 1966, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
1959, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
11 October 1980, Brooklyn, New York, USA
7 July 1965, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
November 21, 2017
[Destined is] a film as much about showing audiences our similarities beneath nature/nurture as it is the guilt and regret we carry everyday.
November 17, 2017
An amusing idea that runs out of steam not long after the premise is established.
November 16, 2017
Basir flubs his big point about fate, choices and paths - that no matter our lives, we face the chance to change for good or bad - by embracing all the clichés he can find, then filming them without nuance or style.
November 17, 2017
Tracking one life, on two possible paths, the gloomy drama Destined derails into a rut of self-seriousness.
November 16, 2017
Unfortunately, the two stories add up to less than the sum of their parts, with the intertwining narratives failing to comment on each other in sufficiently resonant fashion.

