We Grown Now
4
Drama
2024
95 min
PG
In 1992 Chicago, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.
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The resplendence shown of daring to dream big, regardless of the harsh reality they are born to; touched me deeply and also moved me. This struggle of survival mixed with the beauty of innocence- set in Chicago, Cabrini-Green housing project in 1992, is a poignant story of two childhood best friends, surrounded by dangerous circumstances while clinging to the brotherhood they share & the support of Malik's mother, (played by Jurnee Smollet♡) shows much resilience & heart. "
Susan Young
"2024. Life for two close friends, living in Cabrini-Green in 1992. “Writer-director Minhal Baig has made this unexpectedly lyrical, heartfelt film set against a real-life tragedy that occurred in Chicago's ravaged Cabrini Green housing projects in 1992, the killing of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis amid rising gang violence and brutality from the Chicago police.”"
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