Directed By- Mark Becker, Jennifer Grausman
Featuring- Wilma Stephenson, Fatoumata Dembel, Tyree Dudley, Erica Gaither,
Run Time- 1 hr. 39 min
Critics Review- "The movie's sense of inspiration is realistic. It never implies a future of glamour, only hard-won success."- Wesley Morris "Boston Globe"
Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 92% Audience- 80%
Out of a possible 5 stars- 4 1/2 stars
My Review-
This is a really great documentary for many reasons. One of them being its the first one I have seen on the culinary arts and what it takes to make it through competitions and this was high school too. In a high school in Philadelphia there is a culinary arts class run by Wilma Stephenson she seems pretty intimidating and mean but that's because she wants the best for her students. During this movie we are shown each of the featured students above lives and dreams or ambitions if they were to win the competition or graduating in general. We are shown the preliminaries of the competition and so on leading up to the finals where they all compete for scholarships to certain colleges or a college of their choice. The food they cooked was shown through the preparation but I also thought it could have been show a little more. That was one of the only things I found wrong with it, I also thought they could have shown Stephenson's background a little bit and how she decided to become a culinary arts teacher. Other than seeing them cook and the passion in their cooking and how badly they wanted the scholarships made this documentary worth watching. If you like cooking or watching people cook than this is worth checking out, plus there are some really cool and hard working stories from the people they focused on in the documentary.
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