Pariah (2011) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	December 28, 2011 (Limited)
On DVD:	April 24, 2012
Genre:	Drama
Director:	Dee Rees
Writer:	Dee Rees
Cast:	Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, Sahra Mallesse
Studio:	Focus Features
Running Time:	86 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for sexual content and language

The feature is an expansion of Dee Rees' short film of the same name, which screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Adepero Oduye, who had starred in the short film, portrays Alike (pronounced "ah-lee-kay"), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister (Sahra Mallesse) in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the support of her...

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Gay people are gay. No matter how you dress them, no matter who they spend their time with, no matter how you want them to behave, gay people are just going to be gay. They're stubborn like that. In the drama Pariah, writer/director Dee Rees taps into the mind of a teenage lesbian struggling with her sexual identity.

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