A young woman is to forced reconcile her upwardly mobile ambitions with her roots in a crime-ridden community in this formulaic but well-acted variation on the theme of pursuing your dreams through dance.
The second child of hard-working Jamaican immigrants Faye and David Green (Melanie Nicholls-King, Conrad Coates), Raya (newcomer Rutina Wesley) grew up in the Jane-Finch corridor, a rough Toronto neighborhood awash in violence, drugs and multi-generational poverty. Raya always worked to improve herself, and has spent three years at Seaton Academy, and academically rigorous private boarding school. But her parents empty the family coffers battling older sist...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins