Like his 1996 debut GIRLS TOWN, Jim McKay's second feature is another documentary-like drama about three inner-city high-school girls. Both films feature a pregnant protagonist and a suicidal friend, but any real resemblances end there. Where his earlier film captured the budding feminist angst of articulate young adults, McKay's follow-up looks at the stage before that, as a group of 15- and 16-year-olds shed their childhood selves and relationships, sort out new feelings and changing realities, and start to develop into the grown-ups they are fast becoming. In the predominantly black and Hispanic Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, three musketeers Maria (Melissa Ma...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins