Short Term 12 2013

     This film expands on a 2008 short film of the same name.  Grace is the supervisor of a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers.  She works with a team of counselors trying to help kids pulled from bad home situations.  Grace knows first-hand what it is like to live with an abusive parent.  She still has a difficult time talking about and processing what happened to her in the past.  The teens at this center are suffering from depression, substance abuse, self harm and other outer expressions of great inner suffering.

     This is a good film with a good message that doesn’t take a preaching stance.  It’s day-to-day life that can explode into something else at any moment.  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

96 min, Drama directed by Destin Cretton with Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Stephanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia Du Veaux, Keith Stanfield.

Note:  Imdb 8.2 out of 10, 99% critic 94% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.