Stevie (Documentary - filmed around 1999) Grade: B
So what happens when your mom has you and she doesn't want you? What happens when you're a young boy shipped around to different foster homes? What happens when you're sexually abused in these foster homes? What happens when you get somebody from the "Big Brother" program come into your life and then leave you only to show up about 10 or more years later with a video camera to document your life and "catch up"? Well, watch this movie and find out.
Here are some hints... you get in toruble with the law A LOT. You have a mentally slow girlfriend who you don't hit because it didn;t work out with your last girlfriend that you used to smack around. You molest an 8 year old girl. You're at risk of being murdered in jail for it. You're mentallity doesn't pass the age of a young child. Though for all this disaster, there is something absolutely LOVABLE about Stevie. Maybe it's his child like behavior or big goofy look.
With trying to be there for his sister, allowing his life to be filmed only so he can have a connection again with his one time "Big Brother", and having a mom than abused and abandoned him trying to come back into his life, it's quite an interesting story. It's alos 2.5 hours long. One of the biggest highlights was when Stevie and his girlfriend were visiting a friend who is physically diasbled, and possibly mentally as well... her insight to life and relationships is extraordinary! Though this film is quite a downer in many areas, it also has a lot of life and heart in it. I really recommend viewing it.