Pariah

A gritty, down-to-earth, heartfelt film in which a gay, troubled, 17-year-old, African-American student (Adepero Oduye), who writes poetry and lives with her bickering parents (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister (Sahra Mellesse), struggles with her sexual identity and fitting in with other high school students in Brooklyn while getting support from her best friend (Pernell Walker) and the daughter (Aasha Davis) of her mother's coworker as she yearns for acceptance and unconditional love from her judgmental, clueless parents.
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