I don't know what would constitute a "spoiler" in the case of a documentary like this but just in case... If you read the brief summary and you've previously seen any of the innumerable documentaries about the underbelly of the "American Dream" you won't be very surprised by this one. It features innumerable grotesquely obese black American women (and they're almost all black) talking about being abused from the age of as low as four years old or recounting a life of prostitution and drug addiction. The women running the program - ex prostitutes - are doing the best they can to rescue some of the victims and to prevent children from descending into this hellish lifestyle. It's yet another of the innumerable incarnations of the "anonymous" 12-step programs plus various one-on one educational attempts. There's something fundamentally wrong with the society that this film illuminates and I can't imagine that it will change in any fundamental way no matter what anyone tries to do about the symptoms. The obesity tells us as much as anything else in this film which, overall, illustrates a profoundly ignorant world.
Review of Dreamcatcher
