Pariah
- MPAA Rating:
- Length:
- 1 hr 26 min
- Genre:
- Drama
- Director:
- Dee Rees
- Cast:
- Adepero Oduye, Charles Parnell, Kim Wayans
- Release Date:
- December 28, 2011
- Synopsis
- A world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the contemporary drama is an expansion of writer/director Dee Rees' 2007 short film of the same name. 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 best friend Laura (Pernell Walker), she is especially eager to find a girlfriend. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.
