Love among the foster children.

AuthorShackford, Scott
PositionBriefly Noted - Short Term 12 - Movie review - Brief article

A deeply humane and realistic look at a foster care treatment facility for troubled kids, Short Term 12 follows the lives of a couple overseeing the children. The movie's writer/director, Destin Daniel Cretton, worked at a home for at-risk teens, and his experience tells. The children are not a bunch of easy-to-grasp Hollywood stereotypes of uprooted teens. They are neither wise beyond their years, nor violent thugs. They are just kids with serious problems and little...

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