THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE Trailer

Here’s the trailer for George Tillman Jr.‘s The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, which stars Skylan Brooks and Ethan Dizon as Mister and Pete, two young boys struggling to survive on their own in Brooklyn after Mister’s mother (Jennifer Hudson) gets arrested on drug charges.

The film originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and is getting a limited release from Lionsgate on October 11th.  Hit the jump for the full synopsis and trailer.
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During a sweltering summer in New York City, 13-year-old Mister’s (Brooks) hard-living mother (Hudson) is apprehended by the police, leaving the boy and nine-year-old Pete (Dizon) alone to forage for food while dodging child protective services and the destructive scenarios of the Brooklyn projects. Faced with more than any child can be expected to bear, the resourceful Mister nevertheless feels he is an unstoppable force against seemingly unmovable obstacles. But what really keeps the pair in the survival game is much more Mister’s vulnerability than his larger-than-life attitude.

 

THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE is a beautifully observed and tremendously moving film about salvation through friendship and the way transformation sometimes can happen just by holding on long enough.