OT: Our Town (2002)

Directed by

Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about students and teachers at a Compton high school who put on a play with no budget or stage. They adapt a classic story to reflect their own lives and community.

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What happens

OT: Our Town is a 2002 documentary film directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy. It is set at Dominguez High School in Compton, California. The school has not produced a play in twenty years and has no budget, nor a stage. The film documents the efforts by two teachers and twenty-four students to adapt and update Thornton Wilder's 1938 American classic Our Town, set in an all-white small town between the years 1901 and 1913, to better reflect the ethnic background of Dominguez High School and Compton in the year 2000. The film documents rehearsals and the self-doubts experienced leading up to the performance on June 8–10, 2000 in the school's cafeteria. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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