Underplayed Gems

Brown Girl Begins (2018)

Brown Girl Begins poster
Directed by
Sharon Lewis
Genre
science fiction film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
12
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

It is a science fiction film set in a future Toronto. A young woman must take on a dangerous journey to save her community.

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What happens

Brown Girl Begins is a 2017 Canadian science fiction film, directed by Sharon Lewis. The film was inspired by Nalo Hopkinson's 1998 novel Brown Girl in the Ring, although for budgetary reasons Lewis opted to write and film a prequel story rather than literally adapting the novel itself. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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