Gabrielle Union and Jeremy Pope help director Elegance Bratton bring his poignant journey to life
A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.tells the poignant story of Ellis French , who enlists in the Marines and endures every fresh hell that boot camp has to offer in an effort to please his mother, Inez . A decade prior, she deeply hurt Ellis when she kicked him out of the house and left him homeless.
The refreshing depth of Woodbine’s character, as well as that of McCaul Lombardi’s button-pushing fellow recruit, elevates the material above its genre’s familiar formulas. This complexity becomes particularly meaningful when Ellis’ search for identity—in the presence of malignant homophobia—becomes increasingly complicated within an institution designed to strip individuality from its enlistees.
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