2013 SXSW Film Festival winner Grand Jury Award Audience Award. Shelved in the "Movie Classics" collection. John Gallagher Jr., Brie Larson, Frantz Turner.
Summary:
Grace is a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. But Grace's own difficult past - and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself - throws her into unforeseen confusion, made sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility, a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has a charged connection. "...a deeply memorable film."--USA Today. "It's one of the best movies of the year and one of the truest portrayals I've ever seen about troubled teens and the people who dedicate their lives to trying to help them."--Richard Roeper. "...one of the most touchingly memorable last moments of any film this year...this brief but resonant movie sticks with you."--New York Daily News. "Easily one of the best films so far this year..."--Village Voice.
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