When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers.
Acting
Jahking Guillory's debut carries the whole damn film
Direction
Justin Tipping's first feature? Unfairly confident visual storytelling
Score
Brian Reitzell's spacey synths make Oakland feel cosmic
Director
Justin Tipping
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The red Jordans were real 1985 originals — production had to insure them for $10,000 and assigned a 'shoe wrangler'.
Tipping based the story on his own assault at 16 over sneakers; the astronaut was his actual childhood coping mechanism.
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