 On the Outs
Starring: Anny Mariano, Judy Marte, Paola Mendoza
Directed by: Lori Silverbush, Michael Skolnik
Produced by: Lori Silverbush
Release Date: January 20th 2006
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive language, strong drug use, violence, sexual content.
Distributor: Polychrome Pictures
 Domestic: $49,940 (100.0%)
Foreign: ---
Total: $49,940 (Worldwide)
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 "On the Outs" is a dramatic narrative feature based upon the real stories of girls from the streets and juvenile jail, who lent their voices and unique stories to the filmmakers. These are girls who struggle with all the highs and lows of teenage life in an inner-city world that makes its own rules.
The film follows the lives of three central characters from the same Jersey City neighborhood: Oz, 17, is a tough drug dealer with her own corner and the street's respect, who struggles to keep her family intact. Suzette, the sheltered 15 year old daughter of a single mother, whose first teenage crush has life changing repercussions, and Marisol, 17, a single mother who fights both her own demons and the uncompromising world of foster care to keep her child.
In the Summer of 2003, Lori Silverbush, Michael Skolnik and Paola Mendoza, good friends and creative collaborators, sat down to talk about an issue that was of great interest and importance to them both - the perilous lives of inner-city girls. Michael, in his documentary work had met many young people whose lives awed, saddened and inspired him. Lori's work as a screenwriter was increasingly focusing on the lives of adolescent girls.
Paola, an actress and youth educator, whose own childhood background was similar to the stories they were trying to tell. All three have long felt that inner-city girls are the key to ending the tragic cycle of economic, educational and emotional neglect that define at-risk kids' lives.
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