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- Set to the pulsing hip-hop music that fuels Morris’ dreams and offers him refuge in a place that can seem friendly and threatening by turns, this coming-of-age dramedy explores how the challenges of being young, black and misunderstood can be compounded in a foreign environment, but goes about it in a grounded, character-driven way that never smacks of manipulation or special pleading.
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Aug 19, 2016 · “Morris from America” is not the kind of film that stays with you, but its central performances do. Markees Christmas embodies the tender yearning that comes with adolescence hiding his vulnerability in a slack physicality as if he’s trying to seem even smaller to the world around him.
Aug 20, 2016 · Morris From America finds a fresh take on coming-of-age dramatics, and coaxes a loving father/son relationship through East-coast swagger.
Awkward African-American Teen Adjusts to Germany in Bittersweet Coming-of-Age Dramedy It's hard being Morris Gentry ( Markees Christmas) just now . The lonely 13 year-old is not only mourning the loss of his late mother, but is having a difficult time adjusting to life in Germany.
Aug 19, 2016 · Read Matt Goldberg's Morris from America review; Chad Hartigan's film stars Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Lina Keller, and Carla Juri.
Jan 23, 2016 · Morris’ bored but relatively content existence is forever. skewed when dad forces him to join a youth group at a local center. He’ll hang. out with kids his own age, play sports, put on a talent show, make friends—what could.
Jan 22, 2016 · Competing at Sundance in the US Dramatic section, Hartigan’s follow-up to 2013’s This Is Martin Bonner makes some acute emotional observations about the difficulties in finding the right line ...
