Pariah

The acclaimed Sundance hit Pariah is the feature-length expansion of writer/director Dee Rees’ award-winning 2007 short film of the same name. African-American teenager Alike juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family, vacillating between being a proud butch among her openly gay friends and being the feminine, obedient girl that her strict Christian upbringing dictates that she be. Living with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn, life is tense and her parents’ marriage is strained. When she takes the bus into New York City to go clubbing, an entirely different world awaits her, one with go-go dancers, thumping music, and butch bravado. With the boisterous support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura, Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a butch lesbian, and is eager to find a girlfriend. Torn by mounting pressure from home, school, and within, the line between her dual personas wears thin with explosive consequences.

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