Miracle's Boys

Miracle's Boys
The main characters of Miracle's Boys (from left to right), Lafayette, Ty'Ree and Charlie Bailey.
Genre	Drama
Written by	Kevin Arkadie Stephen Langford Dawn Urbont
Directed by	Neema Barnette LeVar Burton Ernest R. Dickerson Bill Duke Spike Lee
Starring	Pooch Hall Sean Nelson Julito McCullum
Composer(s)	Bud'da
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producer(s)	Nicole Silver Orly Wiseman
Producer(s)	Leslie D. Farrell
Editor(s)	K.A. Chisholm Geeta Gandbhir Kathryn Moore Juantxo Royo
Cinematography	Cliff Charles
Broadcast
Original channel	The N
Original run	02011-02-18 February 18 – 20, 2005

Miracle's Boys is a six part miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Jacqueline Woodson, shown on The N in February 2005. The series was directed by Neema Barnette, LeVar Burton, Ernest R. Dickerson, Bill Duke, and Spike Lee and was filmed on-site in Harlem, New York. It also includes a theme song by rapper Nas.

Synopsis

The series follows the lives of two teenaged boys- The Baileys, and their older brother who has to take responsibility who are left orphaned when their mother dies from diabetes complications following the death of their father when the boys were younger. Their father fell into a frozen lake in Central Park trying to save a woman's dog. The eldest Bailey brother, Ty'Ree (Pooch Hall), who is twenty years old, is a mail room manager at a publishing company who got into M.I.T but declined the acceptance to raise his younger brothers; Charlie, (Sean Nelson) the middle boy, age sixteen, has just gotten out of a juvenile detention facility and is mad at the universe. Once an avid pet lover and baseball fanatic, life at the Rahway Boys Home has changed him; and Lafayette (Julito McCullum), the youngest Bailey brother at age fourteen, loves and breathes baseball, but his game has been out-of-sync since his mother's passing. He goes onto to play in a championship game in which he faces an allstar team from Greenwich Village and gets the game winning hit against the best pitcher in state. Also he has many hardships of a 14-year-old boy, including the fact that his childhood crush likes Charlie. The series follows the boys through the hardships of growing up on their own.

Cast

• Pooch Hall as Ty'Ree Bailey

Episodes

Episode #	Episode title	Original airdate
1-1	"New Charlie"	February 18, 2005
1-2	"In The Game of Life"	February 18, 2005
1-3	"Who's to Blame?"	February 19, 2005
1-4	"Miracle's Song"	February 19, 2005
1-5	"Free Day"	February 20, 2005
1-6	"Bond of Brothers"	February 20, 2005

DVD release

The series was released on Region 1 DVD in the United States on November 8, 2005.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Result	Category	Recipient
2006	Black Reel Awards	Nominated	Best Supporting Actress - Television	Jordan Puryear
			Best Supporting Actor - Television	Sean Nelson
			Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted - Television	Kevin Arkadie, Stephen Langford, and Dawn Urbont
			Best Film - Television	-
			Best Director - Television	Neema Barnette, LeVar Burton, Ernest R. Dickerson, Bill Duke, and Spike Lee
	Writers Guild of America Award	Won	Children's Script - Episodic & Specials	Kevin Arkadie (For episode "New Charlie")

External links

• Miracle's Boys at the Internet Movie Database
• Miracle's Boys at TV.com