Our America ( 2002 )

The true story of two young journalists and their award-winning expose on life on the mean streets of Chicago.

Our America is the incredible true story of two young boys from Chicago´s deprived southside who take up a local radio challenge to make a documentary about their everyday lives. The controversial program is riddled with horror stories of a drug dealing, gang warfare, drive-by killings, and broken homes.

For some listeners, Lloyd Newman (Brandon Hammond, TV´s "Soul Food") and LeAlan Jones´ fly-on-the-wall portrait of ghetto life seems to be too negative; too concentrating on the bad aspects of life in their depressed neighborhood. But with the encouragement of enterprising young radio producer Dave Isay (Josh Charles, Dead Poet´s Society, they prove their critics wrong and go on to win a coveted Peabody Award for covering a shocking story that the national press wanted to ignore... Also starring Mykelti Williamson (Forrest Gump) and Peter Paige (TV´s "Queer as Folk").

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