The Interrupters (2011)

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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Tio Hardiman	...	Himself
	Ameena Matthews	...	Herself
	Toya Batey	...	Herself
	Cobe Williams	...	Himself
	Gary Slutkin	...	Himself
	Earl Sawyer	...	Himself
	Bud Oliver	...	Himself
	Kenneth Oliver	...	Himself
	Caprysha Anderson	...	Heraelf
	Sheikh Rasheed	...	Himself
	Alfreda Williams	...	Herself
	Mildred Jones	...	Herself
	Mildred Williams	...	Herself
	Lillian 'Madea' Smith	...	Herself
	Rashida	...	Herself

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The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn, persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. During that period, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape. The film's main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after the most infected... Written by Kartemquin Films  

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