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It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.Read moreLess
It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.
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It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Melanie LynskeyGina
Nelsan EllisMack
Armani JacksonClark
Oona LaurenceAmbrosia
Janeane GarofaloHelena
Nadia DajaniMaya
Veanne CoxSarita
Miranda McKeonJulie
Julie HaysDean Maureen
David EbertTom
Christine TaylorJoan Reed
Colin CritchleyNigel Fishponds KidExplore the crew
- Editor
- Marc Vives
- Director of Photography
- Tom Richmond
- Director
- Rob Meyer
- Writer
- Annie J. Howell
- Producer
- Jared Ian Goldman
- Producer
- Jordan Horowitz
- Original Music Composer
- Kris Bowers