Best Kept Secret 2013

Best Kept Secret

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A New Jersey schoolteacher named Janet Mino works tirelessly to ensure that her students with special needs reach their maximum potential.
  • Genre:
    drama, documentary
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Samantha Buck
  • Producer:
    Danielle Di Giacomo
  • Release Date (Theaters):
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  • Production Co:
    BKS Film, Occasional Giant Beard

Cast & Crew

Alyce Barnhardt
Carla Byrd
Robert Caspar
Johnson Green
Matthew McNabb
Janet Mino
Samantha Buck
Director
Samantha Buck
Writer
Francisco Bello
Writer
Zeke Farrow
Writer
Paul Bernon
Executive Producer
Sean Curran
Executive Producer
Danielle Di Giacomo
Producer
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Critic Reviews for Best Kept Secret

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  • Unlike the majority of autism docus about white, middle-class children, Samantha Buck's film examines the poverty of options available to working-class black and Latino young adults once they leave the safe confines of the classroom.

    September 9, 2013 | Full Review…

    Ronnie Scheib

    Variety

  • This deeply moving but thankfully unsentimental doc is both inspiring and depressing.

    September 9, 2013 | Full Review…

    Frank Scheck

    Hollywood Reporter

  • It spotlights an important issue yet never seeks to squeeze the truth into an easily digestible narrative frame. Instead it expands its storytelling to the boundaries of messy, joyful and painful reality.

    September 6, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Miriam Bale

    New York Times

  • Apart from a few, briskly factual titles, there are no editorial intrusions here - no yammering experts, no pontificating activists, no sappy sentimental music.

    September 6, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Stephen Whitty

    Newark Star-Ledger

  • [Inserts] the viewer into the overwhelming experience of teaching, parenting, even being an underprivileged young adult with autism.

    September 5, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Annlee Ellingson

    Los Angeles Times

  • The real star is teacher Janet Mino, whose advocacy for her kids goes above and beyond.

    September 9, 2013 | Full Review…

    Ernest Hardy

    L.A. Weekly
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