Joe Brewster
Michèle Stephenson
Joe Brewster
Michèle Stephenson
Alfredo Alcantara
Errol Webber
Jon Stuyvesant
Margaret Byrne
Andrew Siwoff
Erin Casper
Mary Manhardt
Greg Smith
Margaret Crimmins
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Michèle Stephenson
Joe Brewster
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2013
United States
135 min
Color
American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through Dalton, one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Chronicling the boys’ divergent paths from kindergarten through high school graduation, this provocative, intimate documentary presents complicated truths about America’s struggle to come of age on issues of race, class and opportuni
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