This understated documentary, though, has no agenda to shame any one family or agency.
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RogerEbert.comGlenn Kenny
RogerEbert.comGlenn Kenny
The Homestretch invites you to empathize with its subjects, to worry with them, to laugh with them, to worry about them. It’s engaging and compelling viewing.
In a moral sense, teen homelessness is very much a crime, and Chicago-based filmmakers Anne De Mare and Kirsten Kelly aim to shed a light on this nationwide epidemic in The Homestretch, using the Windy City as a test case.
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Village VoiceDanny King
Village VoiceDanny King
The Homestretch is ultimately a humane accomplishment.
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The DissolveChris Klimek
The DissolveChris Klimek
It isn’t a documentarian’s job, necessarily, to prescribe remedies for the social problems she reports. But de Mare and Kelly never get as far as framing the scope of the problem in any real way.