![]() ![]() Especially coming on the heels of the highly praised Precious, a seemingly similar but actually vastly different film, Pariah has spent most of the awards season not getting the attention it deserves for its terrific ensemble cast and for Rees' insightful and well-tuned direction. Written and directed by Dee Rees based upon her own short film, Pariah is the sort of high quality, under the radar film that seems to always escape the attention of the Oscars. She resists when her mother insists she become friends with Bina (Aasha Davis), a churchgoing young woman whom Alike unexpectedly finds a breath of fresh air and refreshingly open-spirited. She's incredibly unsure about revealing herself to her parents, both because of the growing tension within their marriage and her mother's fervent Christianity. An good student and poet, Alike is flirting with the idea of becoming an "out" lesbian with strong encouragement from best friend Laura (Pernell Walker). ![]() Alike (Adepero Oduye) is a 17-year-old African-American young woman living with her parents, Arthur (Charles Parnell) and Audrey (Kim Wayans), and sister (Sahra Mallesse) in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Neighborhood. ![]()
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