अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंIn 1995, director Steve James (of 'Hoop Dreams') returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy to whom he had been an "Advocate Big Brother" ten... सभी पढ़ेंIn 1995, director Steve James (of 'Hoop Dreams') returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy to whom he had been an "Advocate Big Brother" ten years earlier.In 1995, director Steve James (of 'Hoop Dreams') returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy to whom he had been an "Advocate Big Brother" ten years earlier.
- पुरस्कार
- 5 जीत और कुल 7 नामांकन
- Self
- (as Stephen Dale Fielding)
- Self
- (as Bernice Hagler's sister)
फ़ीचर्ड समीक्षाएं
I see this as something of a redemption film (even if that redemption is seriously flawed): every major participant comes to a better understanding through the events explored, sometimes with surprising clarity. No, their lives aren't going to be great; that's just not in the cards. But a lot of hard truth gets laid out, often from surprising sources (Patricia for the fiancee, Greg for the Steves). There are no easy or simple answers, except possibly to show the universality of human needs -- and faults. Recommended. 8/10
In one particularly powerful scene you see Stevie reunited with the kindest of his early foster parents and the joy it brings to him. There is almost a complete regression in him to a childlike state, like he is trying to restart his childhood at the point where he was happy.
Steve James does not try to excuse the heinous crime Stevie has committed, rather he forces you to see the complicity we all have in (including in a very real sense himself) allowing a system that ignores the needs of children.
Rarely have two and a half hours of viewing slipped by so rapidly for me. I was near tears at the end of it--not because my emotions had been "tweaked" or played with by the film's creator, but simply out of a feeling of despair for our miserable human condition. This superb film lays a lot of truths about humanity pitilessly bare.
I cannot recommend it highly enough.
क्या आपको पता है
- भाव
Stephen Fielding: [to his baby niece, lovingly] Hey, you got your new face there, don't you? You got your new face there, don't you?
टॉप पसंद
- How long is Stevie?Alexa द्वारा संचालित
विवरण
बॉक्स ऑफ़िस
- US और कनाडा में सकल
- $1,03,401
- US और कनाडा में पहले सप्ताह में कुल कमाई
- $9,383
- 30 मार्च 2003
- दुनिया भर में सकल
- $1,03,401