Stevie
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Steve James
Doug Hickam
Bernice Hagler
Verna Hagler
Stevie Fielding
Tonya Gregory
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Documentarian Steve James, who directed "Hoop Dreams" in 1994, embarked on a new mission the following year. In 1995, he returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young male to whom he had served as mentor and Big Brother, ten years earlier. James intended to capture the happy reunion on camera. What he discovers, instead, is a grown-up, Stevie, who is utterly impoverished and living in a trailer-park. The filmmaker embarks on a quest to uncover what exactly happened to Stevie over the past ten years; as well, James tries to understand the forces that ultimately shaped Stevie's life and turned it into the dour existence that it has become. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested and charged with a serious crime that rips his family apart. That which was intended to be a modest profile turns into an intimate four-and-a-half-year chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the criminal justice system, and the filmmaker himself--as they all struggle with accepting the crime that Stevie has committed, while trying to understand the person who has become.
Director
Steve James
Cast
Doug Hickam
Bernice Hagler
Verna Hagler
Stevie Fielding
Tonya Gregory
Brenda Hickam
Steve James
Crew
Linda Cohen
Stevie Fielding
Peter Gilbert
Peter Gilbert
Peter Gilbert
Tonya Gregory
Bernice Hagler
Verna Hagler
William Haugse
Brenda Hickam
Doug Hickam
Steve James
Steve James
Steve James
Dana Kupper
Dana Kupper
Karen Larson
Robert May
Dirk Powell
Gordon Quinn
Gordon Quinn
Gordon Quinn
Gordon Quinn
Adam Singer
Adam Singer
Kathryn Tucker
Tom Yore
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of Best Cinematography (Documentary Competition) at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
Released in United States 2003
Released in United States April 4, 2003
Released in United States January 2003
Released in United States on Video September 9, 2003
Released in United States September 2002
Released in United States Spring March 28, 2003
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition) January 16-26, 2003.
Shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Documentary Competition) February 28-March 9, 2003.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 5 -14, 2002.
Aired in USA on Cinemax July 27, as part of the "Reel Life" documentary series.
Released in United States 2003 (Shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Documentary Competition) February 28-March 9, 2003.)
Released in United States January 2003 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition) January 16-26, 2003.)
Released in United States Spring March 28, 2003
Released in United States April 4, 2003 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States September 2002 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 5 -14, 2002.)
Released in United States on Video September 9, 2003
