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Troop 1500

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An innovative program brings Girl Scouts together with their inmate mothers.

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Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone TheMovieChicks.com When you think of Girl Scouts, you typically think about campfire songs, s'mores, and cookies, you don't think about young girls with mothers behind bars. Rated: 3.5/5 Mar 9, 2006 Full Review Oz eFilmCritic.com At some point a filmmaker has to decide what they're making, and Spiro and Bernstein have decided to make Troop 1500 a little too Saturday afternoon special for my taste. Rated: 3/5 Apr 28, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I have never seen a film that does such a skillful job of both storytelling and stylistic finesse. The story is heart-wrencing but the girls are hopeful and empowered, in spite of their circumstances. Well-versed in the "Be Prepared" mantra of the Girl Scouts, spunky troop leader Julia Cuba guides her girls into the concrete jungle in which their mothers live. Vintage footage brilliantly captures the woody wilderness normally associated with scouting, but it has nothing on the poignant wilderness faced by the troop members as they struggle to connect with their incarcerated mothers. The daughters must continually adapt to new emotional territory, and the mothers find that their best intentions are too often trumped by their weaknesses. With its beautiful camerawork and skillful use of videotaped interviews conducted by the daughters and their moms, TROOP 1500 is a candid, moving look at families torn apart by crime but trying to relate beyond and behind prison walls. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An innovative program brings Girl Scouts together with their inmate mothers.
Director
Ellen Spiro
Producer
Karen Bernstein, Ellen Spiro
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 8m