What is life like after being locked up in prison from age 15 to 30? How do you adjust to an outside world without the human development skills your contemporaries have?
Writer/director Rashad Frett has a clue and explores it, along with co-screenwriter Lin Que Ayoung, in his intense, harsh reality, post-incarceration drama.
The film introduces Ricardo “Ricky” Smith (Stephan James, “Race”) as he walks nervously around his old Hartford, Conn., neighborhood, disoriented in a place where he once ran the streets. Hoodlums threaten him. People are standoffish, wondering where he’s been. The little self-esteem he musters comes from his hair-cutting skills. He’s a barber. He can make a living. And he must. His parole officer (Sheryl Lee Ralph) is on his case, and he has to attend group therapy meetings, get on someone’s payroll, and rehab himself.
Fortunately, Ricky has a great camaraderie with his younger brother James (Maliq Johnson, TV’s “The Equalizer”)….
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