OT: Our Town
7.6 /10 1 Votes
Genre Documentary Duration Director Scott Hamilton Kennedy Story by Thornton Wilder | 7.4/10 IMDb Initial release August 15, 2003 (USA) Running time 1h 16m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Thornton Wilder (play) Cast Catherine Borek, Joseph Perez, Archie Posada Music director Kevin Haskins, Doug DeAngelis Similar movies Scott Hamilton Kennedy directed OT: our town and The Garden, Chain Camera (2001), Colors Straight Up (1997), Protagonist (2007), Theater of War (2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OT: Our Town is a 2002 documentary film directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy. It is set at Dominguez High School in Compton, California. The school has not produced a play in twenty years and has no budget, nor a stage. The film documents the efforts by two teachers and twenty-four students to adapt and update Thornton Wilder's American classic Our Town, set in an all-white small town between the years 1901 and 1913, to better reflect the ethic background of Dominguez High School and Compton in the year 2000. The film documents rehearsals and the self-doubts experienced leading up to the performance on June 8–10, 2000 in the school's cafeteria.
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A. O. Scott of The New York Times called the film "a modest, moving documentary", noting that "Kennedy observes his subjects with sympathy and tact, and he does the students the courtesy of allowing them to explain themselves, which they do with candor, heart and humor." Ernest Hardy of the LA Weekly praised the film for portraying "a Los Angeles that’s never been put on film".
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OT: Our Town WikipediaOT: Our Town IMDb OT: Our Town themoviedb.org