Chicago Heights (2010)
Nathan Walker is a young man living in Chicago Heights, Illinois, many miles south of downtown Chicago. He finds himself entwined every day in the lives of his neighbors. They're polite, friendly, down-to-earth people. But in any community, individuals have their own private passions that their neighbors will never know. Each has a dark secret, a disappointed dream, a fervent hope, a spirit-breaking fear. We accompany Nathan while he comes of age and observe with him as the layers fall away from this seemingly random array of ordinary people who, below their practiced, Christian surfaces, are extraordinarily human.
Director: Daniel Nearing
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James Barbee as Dante Hard |
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Jay DeVon Johnson as Rev. Curtis Hartman |
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Jason Coleman as The Stranger |
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Andre Truss as Nathan Walker |
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Brian James Harris as Tom Walker |
| Directing | Daniel Nearing | Director |
| Writing | Rudy Thauberger | Writer |
| Writing | Daniel Nearing | Writer |
| Camera | Sanghoon Lee | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Elias Faulkner | Editor |
| Writing | Sherwood Anderson | Novel |