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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete

German title: Mister & Pete gegen den Rest der Welt
Russian title: Неизбежное поражение Мистера и Пита
Original title: The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete

Youth drama – USA
Production year: 2012
Movie length: 118 minutes

Director: George Tillman Jr.
Writer: Michael Starrbury
Cinematograph: Reed Morano
Music: Mark Isham, Alicia Keys

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete

Movie description:

Separated from their mothers and facing a summer in the Brooklyn projects alone, two boys hide from police and forage ... for food, with only each other to trust. A story of salvation through friendship and two boys against the worldÂ ...

During a sweltering summer in New York City, 14-year-old Mister’s hard-living mother is apprehended by the police, leaving Mister and nine-year-old Pete alone to forage for food while dodging child protective services and the destructive scenarios of the Brooklyn projects. Faced with more than any child can be expected to bear, the resourceful ... Mister nevertheless feels he is an unstoppable force against seemingly unmovable obstacles. But what really keeps the pair in the survival game is much more Mister’s vulnerability than his larger-than-life attitude.
Â»The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete« is a beautifully observed and tremendously moving film about salvation through friendship and the way transformation sometimes can happen just by holding on long enoughÂ ...

Â»The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete« is a narrative feature film about 14-year-old Mister and 9-year-old Pete, a pair of boys struggling to survive alone in the Brooklyn projects over the course of a sweltering summer.
Mister and Pete have only each other as they skirt child welfare services, forage for food, try to stay safe, all while holding onto some semblance of their essential faith in the world. This is a dose of hard realism, but George Tillman is approaching it from a child’s perspective and therein lies hope. It is a beautifully observed and moving piece about salvation through friendship and how transformation can happen, sometimes through sheer will and staying power.

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