After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.
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In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined ...
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy F...
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "th...
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school...
When Ella was twelve, she had her first fight. And when she was twelve, she discovered sex. Now eigh...
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them...
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...