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- 2003
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 2 h 20 m
- 2003
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 2 h 20 m
Summary This documentary speaks about the complex realities of growing up, family history, and how the system has - despite good intentions - failed to rescue certain kids. (Lions Gate Films)
Directed By: Steve James
- 2003
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 2 h 20 m
- 2003
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 2 h 20 m
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Summary This documentary speaks about the complex realities of growing up, family history, and how the system has - despite good intentions - failed to rescue certain kids. (Lions Gate Films)
Directed By: Steve James
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
72
78% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
13% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
9% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
It's hard to recall the last movie that has left such an emotionally searing question dangling in the mind: "What if ... ?"
So troubling and unflinchingly honest that watching it becomes a test of empathy and compassion.
Gripping in its intimacy.
It becomes clear that all this man-child craves is to be loved and, thus, saved.
Overly long and uncomfortably intrusive, but never less than compelling.
Can one recommend this unblinking film to the average moviegoer, out for a good time? Only in this way: if James and his crew can spend years with these blighted souls, surely you can spend two hours with them, exploring compassion's outer limits.
Despite good reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this is the kind of squishy lost cause that gives liberal guilt a bad name.
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Production Company
Kartemquin Films,
SenArt Films
Release Date Mar 28, 2003
Duration 2 h 20 m
Rating R
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Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Philadelphia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
