Brooklyn Family Tale (2002)

Sub-Genres - Biography, Law & Crime, Social Issues  |   Run Time - 60 min.  |   Countries - United States  |  
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Documenting three years in the lives of an at-risk family in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and the positive effect on it of one nun, sister Geraldine Tobia, from the Center for Family Life. Producer-director Roger Weisberg also followed the family in the early 1980s for another documentary.

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cancer, community-center, counselor, family-strife, intervention, juvenile-crime, memorial, neighborhood, nun, street-gang, teen-pregnancy, violence