Sony Classics shared two quotes from our own Sherin Nicole on the film she calls crushing yet undeniably lovely, WE GROWN NOW:
“a gorgeous elegy of childhood”
“a poetic reminiscence on love in its many mercurial forms.”
AN EXCERPT FROM SHERIN’S REVIEW
In a time known as 1990s Chicago; in a place called Cabrini-Green, a pair of peach-colored curtains, imprinted with a mosaic pattern, undulate in the wind. The curtains, as a pair, seem as inseparable as our young friends Malik and Eric. But no pair is immune from being swept apart. This is the story of We Grown Now — of a friendship as strong as kin. Two boys and their families are caught in the crossfires of crimes born of scarcity and America’s wars on crime, drugs, anything… Like so many innocent poor people before and after. But We Grown Now is also a poetic reminiscence on the community that once infused America’s most iconic housing project, the great migration from Mississippi to Chicago, and love in its many mercurial forms…
