WE GROWN NOW Trailer | TIFF 2024
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2024
- Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago in the latest film from director Minhal Baig (Hala, TIFF ’19).
Constructed over several decades beginning in the late 1940s, Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing complex embodied contemporary thought on housing and urban development. By 1992, however, the community - and the world - had changed significantly. That’s captured in the latest film from director Minhal Baig (Hala, TIFF ’19).
Along with his mother Dolores (Jurnee Smollett) and grandmother Anita (S. Epatha Merkerson), 12-year-old Malik (Blake Cameron James) has lived in this community all his life. The same is true for his best friend Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez) and together the boys know every nook, stairway, and rooftop - all of these a playing field for their (sometimes forbidden) adventures. But change is intruding on their childhood idyll. Drugs and crime are seeping into the neighbourhood and, when a sudden tragic event further shakes the families, the children’s future becomes uncertain. As Dolores weighs a new job that would take them to the unfamiliar suburbs, Malik and Eric struggle with accepting that they may have to say goodbye to each other.
Anchored by astonishing performances from young newcomers James and Ramirez, We Grown Now serves as a rich and textured portrait of the friendships we often neglect to acknowledge when we talk about what a community is. Baig spent significant time with former residents of the now-demolished Cabrini-Green homes, gathering their stories and garnering support for the telling of them. The result is a lyrical and poignant tale of boyhood innocence, social change, and the fight to hold on to optimism.
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Anything Journee is in I trust to be a great project/film! She is an amazing actor!
❤❤❤ YESSS!!!
watch Birds of Prey and that mindset will change 😂😂
Lol no
You guys, I saw this at Pan African and it was absolutely fantastic. Stunning cinematography, great writing and great acting. We are finally getting realistic child acting, with kids who don’t sound like they are in an Oliver Twist musical. This feature was thoughtfully done with a fabulous message. Everyone please go support this film. It’s not trauma porn. I promise :-)
I was worried about that so thank you for verifying 👌🏽
I can feel the tears now. This movie looks beautifully filmed, and the characters are already Oscar ready!
Ask yourself, why do they always make similar emotional movies about black people? Thru our emotions, comes our problems. Why don’t they ever make movies about blacks thriving, blacks being hero’s, you know, the best images of black people. Why is it always struggle?
@@WeGetItOutTheMudTvask yourself why you feel the need to try to convert a complete stranger’s views on something that’s not affecting you. Let ppl enjoy stuff in peace
@@WeGetItOutTheMudTv I can't agree with you more! Movies depicting our pain instead of our joys, stability, our growth are few and far in-between. Black life in America is not monolithic. We all grew up different, some lived as the Huxtables, some lived like Evans' and some lived like Kings and Queens. We have a huge spectrum in American Black Life. You are most definitely right about this! The movie looks great but is it just persisting the stereotype of black urban life?
The trailer got me, I definitely have to watch this. So many great actors, beautiful videography, and everything feels so natural.
more “woke” 🗑
i see nothing but slave & drug narratives
most ppl r sick of this
we need our OWN hollywood 💯
saw it last week, very touching and sweet. those kids are ACTING
Where did you see it at?
Yep, we crying good with this one
😅🥺😭😭😭😭😭
Teared at the trailer !
I'm already crying. So many memories and feelings unlocked
I’m crying now 🥺🥺🥺🥺
Speak for yourself
I’ve yet to see a project with Journee that wasn’t good.
been saying this for years.....she needs her flowers! One of the rare child stars who has not crashed out, stays in a dope project, and simply beautiful.
Facts!
Word
go watch Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey and that'll change that thought process pretty quick😂😂
Birds of prey
I will watch anything Journee is in, amazing actress. Definitely will be looking for this❤
Why does it feel like "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"?
Beautiful
Anything that shows Cabrini Green I’m watching.
I can relate to this on a personal level as my father and his thirteen siblings grew up in the heart of Cabrini. He persevered through so much while sadly many of them were induced in the challenges of the hood. Can't wait to see this, and tell his story one day.
This looks amazing. As someone from Chicago I can’t wait to see the city and Cabrini Green throughout this story. 💕
Indie Films are always tear jerkers
This looks beautiful and I definitely wanna see it!
I’m from Cabrini Green so I can’t wait to see this movie 🍿 much support and love ❤️
Felt like I was watching a prequel to The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Loved that movie, so definitely looking forward to this.
Looking Forward to seeing this.
When is it dropping. Seems interesting, I'd like to watch.
Love the visual inspiration from Gordon Sparks. This movie is lit and colored with love.
Something about a grown man with grays in his beard telling a minor male that he's grown now and knows right from wrong is just….. 🥴🥴🥴
I feel u , cuz that’s tha problem with our little ones now. Adults treating them like “grown ups” instead of kids !
The white boy wrote that in the script🤷🏽♂️the confusion these people give us and we play willing participants
That scene needs context. Maybe he is telling the boy not to be an adult, but to make better decisions and be more responsible?
@@WeGetItOutTheMudTv what white boy? this movie was written and directed by a woman who grew up in Chicago.
@@queentanisha910 who had to sign off in it?
Woww how am I welling up with tears already? This film is going to be phenomenal, I can feel it. Can't wait to watch.
I’m waiting for candyman to pop up 😂
😂😂
Looks beautiful
Love me Journee Smollet since The Great Debaters.
Funny how they told the senior home building from by the united center and took buildings from by the greens projects that’s no longer and made a set to bring this movie to life, westside chicago living loooking forward to seeing this movie
Us Black mothers we gonna love and appreciate this one!! mothers of every race gonna love and feel this too.
I love it already.
The cast already 😍
I feel this will make me cry more than once
One of the best trailers ive seen in a while
Hollywood be like if it's not interracial, it's going to be a independent movie
Yea... a must watch for me
This looks so beautiful
Looks so beautiful. Gonna watch it.
This looks interesting & I look forward to seeing it.🍿📽️👀
Ill definitely give it a fair shot.
Oh most definitely a tearjerker💜🧡💜
Thank You♥️♥️♥️♥️
Looks good!
I definitely want to watch
We could say Lil Rel calling the kid grown is historical conditioning , but as someone else commented it could be , that he is of age to know the consequences of his choices
looks good i wanna see it
Magical!
Awesome.
omg this looks amazing how can we support this movie?
Already crying!
this looks amazing
The Cabrini Greens all over America
How the government marginalized an entire group & generation of people not unlike what was done too indigenous peoples
Journee is in it? I’m watching it.
all fax
Why is it every time they make a movie about a Black experience, they always cast a biracial person in a lead role? They couldn't get a Black actress to play the boy's mom instead of Jurnee Smollett?
Not Jussie
She is Black!
It's giving struggle story...I'm fine with a biracial woman taking that role.
Seriously.
Beale Street………….amongst others
Next you’ll complain they only make gang films.. it’s never good enough is it.
When it comes to black movies, why is it always struggle???
Where can i watch this? 🥺 in tears
I hope they do one about Rockwell Gardens and Henry Horner. There are a ton of others too, but in due time I guess❤
I'm confused (but not) because apparently this movie was released in April 2024?? Why am i only just now hearing about it? Where is it being played??
This trailer just made me realize I missed the showing near me😢
where can i see this
Oh my city,Chi-Town stand up
so pretty
Reminds me of the book There are no children here
must See
I’m watching this
whens it dropping
❤❤❤❤❤❤
Journee really ain’t new to dis she true to dis 😂😊
👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
omg 😲
What happened to gad dam underground!!!!!!! I signed a petition to keep it going
Nice lil black fantasy film
Seriously, Another one of these. 🙄
😂😂😂😂😂 we get one every couple years if not every year
Yeah ima pass lol
S. Epatha Merkerson?!?!?! SAY LESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful movie, but missing a storyline or conflict arch. Still, it captures a time, an all too familiar black household growing up in the 70's. It captures the struggle and the disadvantage some face. 1 in 4 black boys wind up in prison or probation. 80 of black children born out-of-wedlock. Black women today sing/rap "I ain't looking for no man" on hit record. DEI under attack. Gerrymandering circles around black neighborhoods. Systemic racism in family court and in the criminal justice system. It is a tough time to be a black male in America.
Same old same old
Why do they always cast the lightest brightest women and girls alongside their black male counterparts? Whether it’s wives, mothers, sisters, love interests, etc. was jurnee the only actress available? Love her down but colorism is so blatant and boring in black stories.
Let the story prevail
@@jakilomare I prefer that they cast light skin black women as single moms to broken homes. It's more palatable and destigmatizes dark skin black women. Dark skin black women should go for leading lady roles with proficient careers and successful marriages to white men
That's the only thing you picked up from this trailer? Go somewhere and heal beloved. smdh
@@joevanned3133 I prefer that they cast light skin black women as single moms to broken homes. It's more palatable and destigmatizes dark skin black women. Dark skin black women should go for leading lady roles with proficient careers and successful marriages to white men
Facts!
See you don’t understand haha it’s ok girl
Great actors. Seems like a beautiful movie. But, this is an aspect of the Black experience, not the norm of the Black experience. Most Black Americans do not live in the projects. Most Black Americans do not live in the inner city. Most Black Americans are not poor. Please start showing us as the middle and working class people that we are in this society. Please and thank you.
There is an obsession that associates black people with struggle and problems in black movies.
The movie targeted audience is Black women. And Black women only knows struggle, bickering with other women, and the fantasy of being desired by White men.
Can we have we stop committing crime now?
I'm sure this is good, but uh it also looks depressing as hell, so yeah I'll pass
Am good, tired of these types of stories. Lets go back to the emerald tablets and do a movie about that
Monolith type material🙄🤦🏽♀️
I know this is not going to be a popular opinion, but I am sick and tired of seeing Black people fighting against their neighborhoods to get out of the neighborhood which involves usually fighting or having to deal with other Black people and it seems like that’s our story, and those are the only family that seem to get made, and I am lately sick of it! I thought that possibly this was a true story, which would be the only need to make a story like this because there’s so many of stories like these, and I’m sick of them, I would rather save more realistic stories of how Black people have to deal with being worked over again, and again, not getting the recognition they deserve again, and again, let’s see those type of movies, and not the type of movie of all Black people, seemingly coming from the hood and having to overcome those odds when there are blacks who are from the suburbs, and have just as many difficulties, because of the negativity that we endure as a whole from society, for whatever reason! So background doesn’t matter because like the movie is titled, when you’re grown and you’re an adult black person you deal with the problem in the same as someone who is from what they deem the hood or the ghetto! Those issues are just as important I’m not saying they’re not. I’m just saying, can we make more realistic movies that deal with Black people as a whole and stop making these movies that separate us as a people! We know that there is white trailer parked what we would call ghettos as much as there are Asian ghettos as much as there are Indian ghettos ….showing no matter what the race, but those races are not shown in the same light why is that! And you wonder why we stay separate continuously because you (media studio exes) don’t want to address those problems! And you know Black people are going to go support it just because they have very limited choices and they like the actors because there’s one thing when you go see a black movie you’re going to get good acting, hands-down i.e. Angela Bassett deserving the Emmy and not an honorary one that wasn’t televised……….
I'm tired of black struggle movies
"Black Struggle Movies" are made for Black female audiences. And to add insult, this movie was written and directed by a Pakistani American who basically re-wrote her previous works which featured Pakistani Americans and their trials in life, and just recasted the characters with Black people. And who was the co-producer....A White guy. (lol)
@@thespadestable Thank you. Most Black Americans do not live in the inner city and we are not poor. I'm tired of this narrative being the face of the Black experience. The acting looks amazing but this Black folks in poverty struggle is one dimensional and not the reality for the majority of us.
Look at the title,think of all the black children that think they’re grown already and don’t wanna listen to adults. These movies are sick
7 days!!!
The trailer is so engaging, I got to see the movie! 🥹