This documentary is an amazing story filled with enough laughs and tears to keep you going for a month. I recommend seeing it if you haven't already. The struggle that the boys, the families and the filmmakers experienced in the making of this film is breathtaking. The time and energy that Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing dedicated to this brilliant work leaves you with the feeling that you went through each step of the project with them. When I heard that The Boys of Baraka was going to be in theaters I sighed and smiled. I think every family in America will benefit from seeing how a small gesture of faith can transform a child who is considered beyond help into a young man ready for anything the world can dish out to him; or how a unnoticed stroke of a pen can take away the dreams of a person who is ready to go after them. This is a truly American movie, delivered with a global eye, that will inspire you to feel.
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Four Eyed Monsters
(2005)
The movie moved me to tears..
27 March 2005
.....both times I saw it in Austin. The film takes an approach at film-making that I have never seen before, with a topic so apt that you have to see it to understand. The style is somewhere in between faux documentary and fiction, and the editing and music are virtually seamless. Another thing that really stuck out for me in this film was the acting, they have this ensemble of something like 50 actors, all spot on with their performances. I recommend seeing this movie at one of it's upcoming screenings to check out all of the talent oozing from every pore of Susan, Arin and every actor involved in this film. I think their next screening is at Gen Art in NY, and I'm sure its making the festival circuit elsewhere. Don't miss it if you can help it!
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