This film was not only very poorly written but also extremely miscast. While the story centers around a supposed refugee from Eritrea, neither the facts nor the reality match up with this story-line, since a) Eritrea is not in any way "war torn" (they had a border war with Ethiopia with mostly military casualties) b) Eritrea has never deployed the use of child soldiers. c) the lead neither looks Eritrean (or African for that matter) nor does he sound like an immigrant raised by white parents (sorry...but he definitely needs some diction courses). Even though there is a Nigerian producer involved in this project, it's almost as if they literally picked an African country at random, thinking they all must have SOME civil war going on. Aside from that, without going into details, the dynamics of this "family" just don't add up. Now, despite this poorly contrived script, there are some AMAZING performances from Andrea Bang, Marsha Stephanie Blake and Octavia Spencer (seriously...does she ever NOT give an amazing performance?), so this alone is worth the 5 stars.
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