SummaryThree homeless teens fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers - Kasey, Anthony and Roque - will surprise, inspire, and challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness as they work to complete their education while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned at an early age.
Directed By:Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly
Written By:Kirsten Kelly, Leslie Simmer, Anne de Mare
The Homestretch
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Nov 19, 2014
75
In a moral sense, teen homelessness is very much a crime, and Chicago-based filmmakers Anne De Mare and Kirsten Kelly aim to shed a light on this nationwide epidemic in The Homestretch, using the Windy City as a test case.
Sep 12, 2014
75
The Homestretch invites you to empathize with its subjects, to worry with them, to laugh with them, to worry about them. It’s engaging and compelling viewing.
Sep 11, 2014
75
This understated documentary, though, has no agenda to shame any one family or agency.
Sep 9, 2014
50
It isn’t a documentarian’s job, necessarily, to prescribe remedies for the social problems she reports. But de Mare and Kelly never get as far as framing the scope of the problem in any real way.
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Production Company:
- Doc Society
- Kartemquin Films
- Spargel Productions
Release Date:Jun 20, 2014
Duration:1 h 30 m
Awards
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
