Movie #2012 "The Road Up" (Chicago film fest streaming)This presented a very cool job-training project in Chicago, and it made me proud to be in the city that it has worked. It would be nice if this became a model for other cities to use and perhaps gives a good reason to put the documentary together and for us to watch it. I found it depressing but inspiring , but like a lot of documentaries it was too long --- and it needed to be edited more. I give it a 3.5 for that reason.
'THE ROAD UP" (chicago film fest streaming) 93 minutes documentary 2020
The Road Up follows four participants in Cara, a Chicago job-training program, as they seek to make the long journey from rock bottom to stable employment. Throughout, they are guided, goaded, and challenged by their impassioned mentor, Mr. Jesse, whose own complicated past drives him to help others find hope in the face of poverty, addiction, homelessness, and trauma. Taken together, their stories create a powerful mosaic of the struggles millions of Americans face every day in a precarious and unforgiving economy, the daunting and often interconnected challenges that prevent so many from getting-and keeping-a job.
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