Movie Description:
In 1995, director Steve James returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been anAdvocate Big Brother to ten years earlier. He began a film to discover the forces thathad shaped Stevie`s entire life. Part way through filming,Stevie is arrested and charged with a serious crime that tears his family apart. What was to be a modest profile turns into an intimate four and halfyear chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the criminal justice system, and the filmmaker himself, as they all struglewith what Stevie has done andwho he has become.