OT: Our Town
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  • Summary: At Dominquez High School in Compton, California, basketball is valued above all else. The school has not staged a play in over twenty years. With no budget and no stage, English teacher Catherine Borek attempts to mount a theatrical production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," in an effort to make a change. In the process she takes her fledgling students on a journey of self-discovery. (Film Movement)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    100
    A whole world can be fit into 76 minutes, and that's what the splendid documentary OT: our town manages to do.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    80
    The evolving drama of the amateur, crisis-strewn production creates its own tensions, internal structure and time frame. Pic constantly surprises.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Laura Sinagra
    80
    Kennedy takes pains to illuminate aspects and insights that buck cliché.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Megan Lehmann
    38
    Seems to exist solely to drive this observation home in the most heavy-handed way.

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