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Stevie (2003)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:23
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Poignant documentary that's hard to forget.
Theatrical Release:Mar 28, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: "This is the hardest film I've ever made. But, I also think it's the most honest in its attempt to portray the complexity of family relationships." - Director Steve James Steve James, Academy... [More]
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Reviews for Stevie
Top CriticStevie is a tough movie to watch and an even tougher one to leave, because once you're involved you're implicated.
08/14/03
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07/04/03
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05/28/03
Top CriticA spectacle of suffering and liberal guilt.
05/09/03
Top CriticA powerful chronicle of a human life.
05/09/03
Top CriticA haunting documentary/ personal essay that provokes violently mixed feelings toward both subject and filmmaker.
05/01/03
Top CriticFilmmaker James -- whose wife is a social worker -- should be applauded for his courage and commitment.
04/24/03
Top CriticSome 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.
04/18/03
Top CriticThe road of Stevie is a rough ride, and at 145 minutes, it's a long one. But in an age of so-called reality shows that are no more than hyped entertainment, it is a rewarding if distressing look at flawed but genuine human beings.
04/18/03
Top CriticStevie is a fascinating, irritating movie, with a portrait of a hopelessly troubled young man at its center.
04/18/03
Top CriticBring Kleenex.
04/17/03
Top CriticFor all Stevie implies about the guilt, contradictions and confused motivations of its filmmaker, at bottom it is a deeply humane and touching experience.
04/11/03
Top CriticWhile ostensibly about how the System failed Stevie, this documentary is, of course, really about James who frets, ad nauseam, about his own motives in imposing himself on Stevie and his dysfunctional family.
04/11/03
Top CriticDespite good reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this is the kind of squishy lost cause that gives liberal guilt a bad name.
04/11/03
Top CriticStevie is worth seeing for its provocative originality, and the debates it is bound to raise.
04/11/03
Top Critic[A] special documentary.
04/07/03
Top CriticOf course, James is exploiting Stevie, but the peculiar power of this film lies in James' indirect acknowledgment of it and his hope that his film has some point and value.
04/03/03
Top CriticIf James and his crew can spend years with these blighted souls, surely you can spend two hours with them, exploring compassion's outer limits.
03/31/03
Top CriticStevie is gripping in its intimacy.
03/28/03
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