Pariah
At the club, the music thumps, go-go dancers twirl, shorties gyrate on the dance floor while studs play it cool, and adorably naive 17-year-old Alike takes in the scene with her jaw dropped in amazement.
Meanwhile, her buddy Laura, in between macking the ladies and flexing her butch bravado, is trying to help Alike get her cherry popped.
This is Alike’s first world. Her second world is calling on her cell to remind her of her curfew.
On the bus ride home to Brooklyn, Alike sheds her baseball cap and polo shirt, puts her earrings back in, and tries to look like the feminine, obedient girl her conservative family expects. - Sundance Film Festival
Starring: Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, Aasha Davis