Stevie

Aroview: A provocative, uniquely intimate doco in which the director reknews his acquaintance with a troubled adoptee, now facing prison, whom he once mentored as a college student.

Returning to his hometown in rural Illinois, Steve James finds the boy "Stevie" grown into an aggressive, sociopathic young man, divorced after a five-month marriage to a much-older wife, and in chronic trouble with the law. Like James's HOOP DREAMS this is a little protracted at nearly two and a half hours, but uncomfortably fascinating as the project itself begins to impact on the sensitivity of the filmmaker and on the expectations and fate of his less fortunate namesake.

NZ International Film Festival 2003

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