Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 74
Fresh: 67 | Rotten: 7
Poignant documentary that's hard to forget.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 5
Poignant documentary that's hard to forget.
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In the early '80s, Steve James was a student at Southern Illinois University who volunteered for the local Big Brother program and served as a mentor for Stephen Dale Fielding (Stevie for short), a troubled 11-year-old boy with unhappy family relationships. Given up by his mother when her husband decided he didn't want him in the house, Stevie was primarily raised by his step-grandmother and had already begun to reveal a stubborn and easily distracted personality when he met James. After he
Apr 11, 2003 Limited
Sep 9, 2003
Lions Gate Releasing
All Critics (81) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (69) | Rotten (8) | DVD (7)
Stevie is a tough movie to watch and an even tougher one to leave, because once you're involved you're implicated.
A spectacle of suffering and liberal guilt.
A powerful chronicle of a human life.
A haunting documentary/ personal essay that provokes violently mixed feelings toward both subject and filmmaker.
Filmmaker James -- whose wife is a social worker -- should be applauded for his courage and commitment.
Some viewers will feel moved to tears of compassion, and others will point to Stevie Fielding as an argument for more barbed wire on the prison walls. But there's no denying this is an important film.
... a potent reminder that grace, healing, and resolution are possible for the most broken of families.
A touching and unique documentary, Stevie brings the filmmaker and his subject closer together than most films.
Steve James, as he did in "Hoop Dreams," gets amazing access to this entire extended family and friends to create a very moving film.
Steve (Hoop Dreams) James's deep and singular commitment to his subject shines through in this compelling documentary.
An engrossing but not always pleasing cinema verité documentary.
Although it isn't the type of film that will jump out of your speakers, it will creep out and grab on to your heart.
If a two-and-half hour long documentary about a redneck child molester doesn't seem particularly appealing, you'd be pleasantly surprised . . .
It stumbles at points because of an overlong running time, but it speaks volumes
I liked it in the same way I love watching Big Brother and every other stupid reality show on television.
Heart wrenching and real, this documentary shows what on the surface appears to be simply an undereducated young man. As it unravels we begin to see more of the troubling details of his life. Very well done documentary.
March 30, 2010
When Steve James, director of docs like Hoop Dreams, was in college he was a Big Brother to a local boy with some difficulties in his life. Having relocated after college, the filmmaker decided to visit his former home and check in on this boy 10 years later. This can be hard to watch at times, but somehow I couldn't
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