OUR AMERICA

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Our America is the incredible true story of two young boys from Chicago's deprived southside who take up a local radio challenge to make a documentary about their everyday lives. The controversial program is riddled with horror stories of a drug dealing, gang warfare, drive-by killings, and broken homes.; ; For some listeners, Lloyd Newman (Brandon Hammond, TV's 'Soul Food') and LeAlan Jones' fly-on-the-wall portrait of ghetto life seems to be too negative; too concentrating on the bad aspects of life in their depressed neighborhood. But with the encouragement of enterprising young radio producer Dave Isay (Josh Charles, Dead Poet's Society, they prove their critics wrong and go on to win a coveted Peabody Award for covering a shocking story that the national press wanted to ignore... Also starring Mykelti Williamson (Forrest Gump) and Peter Paige (TV's 'Queer as Folk').
• Cast: Josh Charles, Brandon Hammond, Serena Lee, Roderick Pannell, Irma P. Hall, Peter Paige, Vanessa Williams, Mykelti Williamson, Rukiya Bernard, K.C. Collins, Neil Crone, Jordan Duncan, Jordan Francis, Maxine Guess, Gene Mack, Michael A. Miranda, Egidio Tari, Mark Taylor, Dan Willmott, Ernest R. Dickerson, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman, David Isay, Gordon Rayfield
• Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Paramount
• Media Format: Movie