A Better Life (2011)

There were a couple of times that the action onscreen was just devastating. Nothing was so ridiculously horrible that it became unbelievable, there was just that day-to-day inability to ever get ahead -- the kind of life that makes one plunge into despair, I’d imagine.

The big problem was that I was taken out of the moment a couple of times when the teens were on-screen as most of them were incredibly stiff, seemingly non-actors. Here's a tip: recast and try again when someone’s not working out. There are plenty of “gang” type teen actors availabe -- call up The Shield’s casting director if you can't get them to audition on your own.

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