Short Term 12
2013 · Movie · R · 96 min · ★ 7.8 · 90% critics
At a short-term foster care facility, a caring young supervisor supports teens carrying heavy emotional burdens. When a new resident stirs painful memories from the supervisor’s own past, the daily work of helping others becomes closely tied to facing unresolved wounds.
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Details
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-08-23
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 90/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.8/10 (1,415 votes)
About
You may like this if you appreciate intimate, heartfelt dramas like 50/50 or Beginners; Not for you if heavy stories about trauma and foster care feel too stressful.
Pros: deeply emotional; authentic characters; strong performances | Cons: emotionally stressful; familiar premise; slow for some
Themes
- child abuse
- parent child relationship
- suicide attempt
- social worker
- pregnancy
- parole
- incest
- foster child
- troubled teen
- foster care
- group home
- care home
- +1 more
Cast & crew
Brie Larson
as Grace Howard
John Gallagher Jr.
as Mason
Kaitlyn Dever
as Jayden Cole
Rami Malek
as Nate
LaKeith Stanfield
as Marcus
Kevin Hernandez
as Luis
Melora Walters
as Dr. Hendler
Stephanie Beatriz
as Jessica
Lydia Du Veaux
as Kendra
- AC
Alex Calloway
as Sammy
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton