简介：Akilla's Escape weaves the present and past in a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier. Set in Toronto and New York where over 450,00 Jamaicans reside, the story speaks to the historical criminalization of black boys that modern society overlooks.Akilla Brown is forty-years-old and for the first time in his life, the clandestine cannabis grow operation he runs is legit. Only one year into government approval legalization, the pendulum of hypocrisy takes a toll and Akilla decides to cash out. While making a routine delivery on a cool, summer night, destiny takes an unexpected turn when Akilla confronts a firestorm of masked youths in an armed robbery.In the aftermath of the heist, Akilla captures one of the thieves, a mute fifteen-year-old boy named Sheppard. Upon leaning the bandits are affiliated with the Garrison Army, a Jamaican crime syndicate his grandfather founded. Akilla is forced to reckon with a cycle of violence he thought he escaped.
4.0 汤米·李·琼斯/珍·路易莎·凯利/尼尔·麦克唐纳/尼古拉斯·罗根/扎克瑞·莱维/肖恩·布里吉格斯/John Pyper-Ferguson/James Hal Hardy/莫里斯·格林/小安杰尔·罗萨里奥/埃里克·T·埃斯帕萨/梅格·弗雷泽/梅丽莎·钱伯斯/赫苏斯·卡萨斯/马修·布鲁德-史密斯/
