Stevie (film)

Infobox_Film
name =Stevie
director =Steve James
runtime =140 min.
language =English
imdb_id =0334416
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"Stevie" is a 2002 film by documentarian Steve James. In 1995 James returned to Pomona, a rural town in southern Illinois, USA. He attempts reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an 'Advocate Big Brother' to ten years earlier.

ynopsis

At the center of "Stevie" is the relationship between James and Stephen Fielding, who was a troubled, desperately shy boy when James served as his Big Brother while attending graduate school in southern Illinois. Ten years later, promises to keep in touch fallen by the wayside, James returns to find that Fielding has grown into a troubled young man who's been in and out of jail several times, still lives with his grandmother, can't hold a steady job and has grown a calloused exterior around his childish shyness. By the time James returns two years later, things have gone from bad to worse: Fielding has been charged with sexually molesting his 8-year-old cousin.

Aftermath

Stephen Fielding is due to be paroled November the 16th, 2008Fact|date=September 2008.

External links

*" [http://artsandfaith.com/t100/2005/entry.php?film=80 Stevie] " at the [http://artsandfaith.com/top100/ Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films] list
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