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Valentine Road
- Director: Marta Cunningham
- Producer: Sasha Alpert; Marta Cunningham
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On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate...
There are so many 'wrongs' in this story...this film is a valiant and futile attempt to set some of those 'wrongs' right...by highlighting them.
A young trans kid lost his life because no-one intervened...no-one thought about getting this kid some transitional help...shameful. Two young boys failed by the system, by their parents, by a so-called caring society...!
The defense lawyers and expert witness are reprehensible...the jurors' post-trial conversations should have your jaw hitting the floor...in abject disgust.
This is horror. This is what documentary film-making is all about. This will make you think.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. When Larry died two days later, his murder shocked the nation. Was this a hate crime, one perpetrated by a budding neo-Nazi whose masculinity was threatened by an effeminate gay kid who may have had a crush on him? Or was there even more to it? Looking beyond all the copious news coverage of this tragic event, Valentine Road tells the story of two victims: the deceased and the murderer. With keen insight, the film connects the human wreckage of Larry's and Brandon's troubled lives-both physically abused, both from broken homes, and both searching for a sense of belonging.