Interrupters, The (2011)
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7.5/10 (3.2K votes)

Country:United States, 125 minutes

Spoken languages:English

Genres:Crime, Documentary

Director(s):Steve James

Writer(s):David Guggenheim

Video Codec:RealMedia

Number: 2147

Storyline:
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn, persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. During that period, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape. The film's main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. The singular mission of the "...

Cast:

photo Eric Holder Jr.
Eric Holder Jr. Himself , archive footage
photo Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson Himself , archive footage
photo Tio Hardiman
Tio Hardiman Himself
photo Ameena Matthews
Ameena Matthews Herself
photo Toya Batey
Toya Batey Herself

Medium: DVD5,

Location: Drawer 18 Slot 111

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 16:9 Widescreen