Film Rec
I gotta say, Short Term 12 is one of the best movies I've seen in awhile. It's just about perfect and I highly recommend you take a chance and see it! I've spent time in places like this, on both sides, and the film does an incredible job of realistically portraying both the kids who live there and the adults who work there. Great acting, great editing, great story--this is a wonderful movie!
imdb summary: At a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers, Grace is a young counselor trying to do her best for kids who often have been pulled from the worst kinds of home situations. Even then, life is not easy as Grace and her colleagues care for kids who are too often profoundly scarred, even as they try to have lives of their own. Now, things are coming to a head as Grace readies for marriage even as some of her charges are coming to major turning points in their lives. To cope, Grace will have to make difficult perceptions and decisions that could put her career, and more importantly her charges, at dire risk.
(Sidenote: Feel like I want to crossover Short Term 12 and Four Brothers just for the hell of it!)
imdb summary: At a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers, Grace is a young counselor trying to do her best for kids who often have been pulled from the worst kinds of home situations. Even then, life is not easy as Grace and her colleagues care for kids who are too often profoundly scarred, even as they try to have lives of their own. Now, things are coming to a head as Grace readies for marriage even as some of her charges are coming to major turning points in their lives. To cope, Grace will have to make difficult perceptions and decisions that could put her career, and more importantly her charges, at dire risk.
(Sidenote: Feel like I want to crossover Short Term 12 and Four Brothers just for the hell of it!)