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OT: Our Town

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OT: Our Town
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NR,1hr 17min
Genre:
Documentary
Released:
August 15, 2003
Director:
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Distributor:
Film Movement
Starring:
Catherine Borek, Karen Greene, Ebony Starr Norwood-Brown  ...more
Synopsis: The Los Angeles community of Compton has become infamous thanks to news reports and rap music lyrics that have portrayed it as an African-American neighborhood brought to the edge of destruction by corruption and black-on-black crime. In 2003, a handful of students and teachers at Compton's Dominguez High School decided to do something that hadn't happened at the school in more than 20 years -- put on a play. When it became obvious that the financially strapped school (which had recently canceled ... Full Synopsis
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Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
A whole world can be fit into 76 minutes, and that's what the splendid documentary OT: our town manages to do. Full Review
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out of 100
Based on 14 critic reviews
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