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[Opens July 1 in theaters and available on various VOD platforms.] Dan Chen's educational, enlightening, disturbing, thought-provoking, 92-minute, 2021 documentary that showcases ambitious, college-bound, Black high school students Alicia Simon, Adia Sabatier, Isaac Smith, and Cathy Bui in Louisiana in 2019 who attended the unorthodox T.M. Landry College Preparatory School founded in 2005 and run by motivating charismatic, no-nonsense teacher Michael Landry, who used unconventional methods and occasionally mental and physical abuse to get students into Ivy League institutions, and his wife Tracey and then examines the controversy that erupted when a New York Times article revealed evidence of fraud, abuse, falsifying records, and unscrupulous and highly unconventional tactics.
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