Best Kept Secret
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  • Summary: JFK High School, located in the midst of a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs, ranging from those on the autism spectrum to those with multiple disabilities. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate in the spring of 2012, they will leave the security of the public school system forever. Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world – a job or rare placement in a recreational center – so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets.… Expand

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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Annlee Ellingson
    Sep 5, 2013
    100
    This is no sappy portrait of a saint: Mino is tenacious, critical and defensive, and in one memorable scene, a colleague tries to get her to face reality about what the real world holds for their students after graduation.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Miriam Bale
    Sep 5, 2013
    100
    Best Kept Secret is an exemplary documentary: It spotlights an important issue yet never seeks to squeeze the truth into an easily digestible narrative frame. Instead it expands its storytelling to the boundaries of messy, joyful and painful reality.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    Sep 10, 2013
    100
    If Secret can leave the viewer despairing, it's also hugely inspiring, thanks to Mino. She's one of the cinematic heroines of the year.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    Sep 11, 2013
    100
    At once heartbreaking and uplifting.

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  1. monabu50
    Sep 26, 2013
    10
    forever. Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world a job or rare placement in a recreational center so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets.… Expand

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