Fruitvale Station

Project LEARN Category

L- Listen
E- Educate

Intended Audience(s)

 
 

Theme/Focus

Racism

Movie Details

Director: Ryan Coogler
Release Year: 2013
Running Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Rating: R

*BIPOC Director Designation

Movie Synopsis

Though he once spent time in San Quentin, 22-year-old black man Oscar Grant is now trying hard to live a clean life and support his girlfriend and young daughter. Flashbacks reveal the last day in Oscar's life, in which he accompanied his family and friends to San Francisco to watch fireworks on New Year's Eve, and, on the way back home, became swept up in an altercation with police that ended in tragedy.

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