A movie directed by Thomas Carter.
Young love story about a white ballet dancer who moves to a South Chicago neighborhood after her mother dies. She attends a mostly black school, strikes up a friendship and enemy right off the bat, falls for the smart boy in class, and get into the school of her dreams. All candycoated goodness, full of hopes and dreams and they type of movie that makes the pathethic more depressed when they think that something like that is even possible; it's not.
Her new friend in school is also a teenage mother. Despite the movies attempts to show a glimpse or two of how frustrating an infant can be, the flashy clothes the teen mother wears and the nights spent out at the club while grandmother cares for the baby are unrealistic. They also cheapen the mother's continued assault on the baby's father for child support that is so desperately needed.
112 minutes long.
written on July 18, 2004