THE INTERRUPTERS
2011-08-08A year in the life of a city grappling with urban violence.The film tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn, persistence of violence in our cities. The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities.
In theaters August 12th, 2011