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'Our Town' Via Compton.
For the past year the documentary "OT: Our Town" has been bowling over audiences at film festivals around the United States. Now Scott Hamilton Kennedy's movie is finally being released to the public. It's been a banner year for documentaries at the box office--the record- breaking "Bowling for Columbine," "Spellbound," "Capturing the Friedmans" and "Winged Migration" have all been unexpected hits. "OT" deserves a place alongside them.
The film chronicles a high-school production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." What makes this production special is that it's the first play in 20 years put on by the students of Dominguez High School in infamous Compton, California. It's a school where nothing matters but basketball, where all the students are African-American or Hispanic, where there is no money for the show, no stage in sight, and rehearsals have to be conducted in the cafeteria. How could these kids, all too familiar with the sound of gunfire, possibly relate to Wilder's folksy New England period piece?
Kennedy intercuts scenes from the TV production starring Hal Holbrook and Robby Benson with the lives of these Compton ...
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