Show Me a Hero (2015)

Directed by

Paul Haggis

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 189 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The miniseries follows the mayor of Yonkers in the late 1980s as he fights to enforce a court order for public housing in a white neighborhood. It shows the resistance from residents and the political and personal costs of the battle.

tensegrittythoughtfulslow-burnmelancholicearnestcerebralpolitically charged

What happens

Show Me a Hero is a 2015 American miniseries based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by former New York Times writer Lisa Belkin about Yonkers mayor (1987–89) Nick Wasicsko. Like the book, the miniseries details a white middle-class neighborhood's resistance to a federally mandated scattered-site public housing development in Yonkers, New York, and how the tension of the situation affected the city as a whole. The miniseries was written by David Simon and journalist William F. Zorzi, with whom Simon worked at The Baltimore Sun and on the HBO series The Wire. It was directed by Paul Haggis. Six episodes were ordered by HBO; the miniseries premiered on August 16, 2015. The name of both the show and the book that it is based upon comes from an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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