![]() ![]() But they’ve already made up their minds to rise above their childhoods, be the first in either family to go to college. Two black kids from Detroit - one raised by a single mom, the other abandoned by drug addled parents? That seems too on-the-nose. ![]() Littky, an on-point off-camera questioner, can’t quite avoid stereotypes, even in her selection of subjects. And no matter what false starts or pitfalls life gives them, that shared character trait was still obvious a decade later. The arc of the film shows them to be go-getters, piling up awards, club responsibilities, good grades and ambitions at 18. But Pamela Littky’s four subjects, followed for ten years, give us a healthy dose of white privilege and a taste of the struggle that people who don’t start out on second or third base in life face on the “road to success.”Īnd what’s striking about this quartet - blonde Sarah, the Florida preacher’s kid, Quidrela (“Quay”) and Charles (“Disco”), both black teens from Detroit, and California boy Peter, the son of two college professors - is how much alike they are. It may be smaller in scale and scope than the gold standard for such films, Michael Apted’s classic “7-Up,” (and “28-Up,” etc.) series of British films. ![]() “Most Likely to Succeed” is an ambitious, smart and affecting documentary that follows four disparate high school over-achievers, kids who collected that title in their respective alma maters, to see how life worked out for them in the decade after graduation. ![]()
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