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Stevie
Directed by
Steve James
R
2003
2h 25m
Documentary
,
Drama
7.8
91%
89%
6.9
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In 1995, director Steve James (of 'Hoop Dreams') returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy to whom he had been an "Advocate Big Brother" ten years earlier.
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Cast of Stevie
Steve James
Self / Director
Stephen Fielding
Self
Tonya Gregory
Self
Bernice Hagler
Self
Verna Hagler
Self
Brenda Hickam
Self
Doug Hickam
Self
Judy James
Self
Stevie Ratings & Reviews
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Stevie is a tough movie to watch and an even tougher one to leave, because once you're involved you're implicated.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A spectacle of suffering and liberal guilt.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A powerful chronicle of a human life.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
A haunting documentary/ personal essay that provokes violently mixed feelings toward both subject and filmmaker.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Filmmaker James -- whose wife is a social worker -- should be applauded for his courage and commitment.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
The road of Stevie is a rough ride, and at 145 minutes, it's a long one. But in an age of so-called reality shows that are no more than hyped entertainment, it is a rewarding if distressing look at flawed but genuine human beings.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Stevie is a fascinating, irritating movie, with a portrait of a hopelessly troubled young man at its center.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Bring Kleenex.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
While ostensibly about how the System failed Stevie, this documentary is, of course, really about James who frets, ad nauseam, about his own motives in imposing himself on Stevie and his dysfunctional family.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A remarkable and profoundly sad experience.
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius
Despite good reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this is the kind of squishy lost cause that gives liberal guilt a bad name.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
[A] special documentary.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Of course, James is exploiting Stevie, but the peculiar power of this film lies in James' indirect acknowledgment of it and his hope that his film has some point and value.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
If James and his crew can spend years with these blighted souls, surely you can spend two hours with them, exploring compassion's outer limits.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Stevie is gripping in its intimacy.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A brave and painful film.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Overly long and uncomfortably intrusive, but never less than compelling.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
One might conclude that the enormous value of a film like Stevie lies in its ability to take us places we'd probably never go otherwise -- not merely as guilty liberals, but as thinking individuals who want to learn something about the world we inhabit.
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