Pariah (Blu-ray) R
Who do you become when you can't be yourself?
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 24, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Adepero Oduye & Kim Wayans | |
Directed by | Dee Rees | |
Edited by | Mako Kamitsuna | |
Screenwriting by | Dee Rees | |
Director of Photography: | Bradford Young |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rees presents this vivid, hidden culture with raw honesty... -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
[T]he film has an abiding sweetness that’s ultimately irresistible...
A.V. Club
4 stars out of 4 -- PARIAH feels a lot like life, at its most confusing, contradictory and exhilarating.
Washington Post
Rating: 3.5/4 --
"Pariah" is a small film about a big subject: the struggle to be who you are, not who others would like you to be.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rating: B --
You don't have to be black or lesbian or even know someone who's gay to appreciate "Pariah"; you just have to have gone through or be going through the process of growing up.
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Detroit News
At its soulful heart, PARIAH is a stinging street-smart story...
Los Angeles Times
Directed by Dee Rees a Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
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Product Description:
A teenager must choose between the life she wants and the path her parents have picked out for her in this independent coming-of-age drama. At home, 17-year-old Alike (Adepero Oduye) is a sweet and soft-spoken girl who tries to follow the wishes of her straight-laced mother (Kim Wayans). However, there's another side of her that her parents don't know about -- Alike is a lesbian, and with her best friend Laura (Pernell Walker) she slips out to downtown dance clubs where she feels free to be open about her sexuality, though she's still working up the courage to act on her desires. As she becomes more mature, Alike is torn between living the sheltered life her parents want for her, the club-hopping lifestyle Laura has already embraced, or something that lies in between, like her neighbor Bina (Aasha Davis). PARIAH was the first feature film from writer and director Dee Rees, who adapted the story from her award-winning short film of the same name. PARIAH was an official selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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