A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Acting
Adepero Oduye's face does ALL the work
Direction
Dee Rees' visual poetry in Brooklyn streets
Cinematography
Blue lighting that holds Alike's secret self
Director
Dee Rees
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dee Rees expanded this from her own 2007 short film of the same name, shot in her actual childhood neighborhood of Crown Heights.
Released the same year as 'The Help,' this was the other 2011 film about Black women — except actually BY one. Sundance standing ovation.
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