LaKeith Stanfield, the young man who plays Marcus, is just phenomenal. There are so many great, relatively unknown actors in this film. It’s also a refreshing look at the role of foster care - for once foster parents are not portrayed as the bad guys, but rather as the rare catalysts for bringing out the best in someone when it may have otherwise been stifled, suppressed or lost. The feature adapts Cretton’s own short film from 2008 of the same name, and expands on it to paint a beautiful and enlightening picture of life at a young adult treatment facility. In 2013, as part of our New Faces of Film series, we brought Destin Daniel Cretton’s feature film, Short Term 12, to the Tallahassee audience. IndieWire’s recent The 25 Best Female Performances of the 21st Century list is a great read, but one of the films on that list is a personal favorite here at TFF, and we wanted to take a minute to just tell you a little about it.
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