American Promise

MUST SEE: Joe Brewster's American Promise - Filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson dedicated 12 years of their family's life to "American Promise," and the payoff turns out to be more than just a glorified homemovie. In this intimate look at what it's like to be young, black and male in a largely white private school, Brewster and Stephenson chart the progress of their son, Idris, and his friend and peer, Seun, through Middle School at New York's prestigious Dalton School, and then as they go their separate ways, to high school. The result isn't as revelatory or dramatic as like-minded landmark "Hoop Dreams," but remains riveting nonetheless. 2013SUN. RATING: 8.

 

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