The Interrupters
The Interrupters

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The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn, persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbo... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Interrupters:

Tio Hardiman
Ameena Matthews
Cobe Williams
Gary Slutkin
Caprysha Anderson
Eddie Bocanegra

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The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn, persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. During that period, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape. The film's main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. The singular mission of the "Violence Interrupters" - who have credibility on the streets because of their own personal histories -- is to intervene in conflicts before they explode into violence. In The Interrupters, Ameena Matthews, whose father is Jeff Fort, one of the city's most notorious gang leaders, was herself a drug ring enforcer. But having children and finding solace in her Muslim faith pulled her off the streets and grounded her. In the wake of Derrion Albert's death, Ameena becomes a close confidante to his mother, and helps her through her grieving. Ameena, who is known among her colleagues for her fearlessness, befriends a feisty teenaged girl who reminds her of herself at that age. The film follows that friendship over the course of many months, as Ameena tries to nudge the troubled girl in the right direction. Cobe Williams, scarred by his father's murder, was in and out of prison, until he had had enough. His family - particularly a young son - helped him find his footing. Cobe disarms others with his humor and his general good nature. His most challenging moment comes when he has to confront a man so bent on revenge that Cobe has to pat him down to make sure he's put away his gun. Like Ameena, he gets deeply involved in the lives of those he encounters, including a teenaged boy just out of prison and a young man from his old neighborhood who's squatting in a foreclosed home. Eddie Bocanegra is haunted by a murder he committed when he was seventeen. His CeaseFire work is a part of his repentance for what he did. Eddie is most deeply disturbed by the aftereffects of the violence on children, and so he spends much of his time working with younger kids in an effort to both keep them off the streets and to get support to those who need it - including a 16-year-old girl whose brother died in her arms. Soulful and empathic, Eddie, who learned to paint in prison, teaches art to children, trying to warn them of the debilitating trauma experienced by those touched by the violence. The Interrupters follows Ameena, Cobe and Eddie as they go about their work, and while doing so reveals their own inspired journeys of hope and redemption. The film attempts to make sense of what CeaseFire's Tio Hardiman calls, simply, "the madness".

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Salon.com - 10/10 by Andrew O'HehirA stereotype-shattering movie that's full of them, and one that may permanently change the way you think about violent crime in America.
Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Andrea GronvallWhen the interrupters do succeed, the results can be riveting.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertThe Interrupters is based on a much-acclaimed article in the New York Times Magazine by Alex Kotlowitz, who followed a period of intense violence in Chicago. He joined with James to co-produce the film. It is difficult to imagine the effort, day after day for a year, of following this laborious, heroic and so often fruitless volunteer work.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) - 10/10 by John BeifussChronicles 'one year in the life of a city grappling with violence,' when Chicago was labeled a 'war zone.' Laments a funeral home director: 'How can the President of the United States be a black man... but I'm still burying black kids?'
NewsBlaze - 10/10 by Kam WilliamsA riveting documentary which chronicles the efforts of several intrepid community organizers to bring an end to black-on-black crime in the City of Chicago.
MSN Movies - 10/10 by James RocchiJames' Hoop Dreams has been spoken of with reverence and wonder for 17 years; now, he has an equal to its reputation.
ViewLondon - 10/10 by Matthew TurnerPowerful, inspirational and suddenly incredibly topical, this is a superbly made, vitally important documentary that demands to be seen. Unmissable.
Spirituality and Practice - 10/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatA riveting documentary about three committed, sensitive, and compassionate warriors for peace whose heroism has made a difference in the lives of people in inner city Chicago.
About.com - 10/10 by Jennifer MerinThrough chronicling CeaseFire's attempts to quell street violence, the filmmakers show how violence causes a downward spiral of despair. This isn't an easy documentary to watch, but it is one which must be seen.
Boston Globe - 10/10 by Wesley MorrisThe immediacy and caprice of violence in The Interrupters are just as strong as in nearly every documentary I've seen about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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