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uh Brave the dark from Angel Studios is
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story of a a very kind teacher at a
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school uh Stan Dean was a real person uh
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played by Jared Harris I recognize Jared
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Harris a character actor British
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character actor who was uh prominently
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featured in Mad Men which I really son
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of and son of Richard
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and son of Richard Harris he plays
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stanan a teacher that is kind he teaches
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theater and math and Nicholas Hamilton
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plays Nathan Williams who is a young
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high school student getting in trouble
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80s and um he is pulling small crimes
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violent uh in the school he's uh I guess
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you would call him JD one fateful
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morning um Stan Dean the teacher sees
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Nathan sitting at his desk and he gives
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him a chocolate bar this small act of
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kindness makes Nathan maybe trust this
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teacher maybe think the world is not out
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revealed that uh Nathan was pulling
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crimes and may have to go to juvenile
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juvenile uh detention
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actually you know jail for young kids
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but stanan takes him under his wing to
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try to help him um he's struggling with
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in school and with life and just dealing
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with emotions as I'm watching this movie
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think this is like an angel Studio this
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is like an after school special it's
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really schaly um stanine is kind of this
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he's he he's um basically mourning the
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loss of his mother who he lived with so
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he kind of takes Nathan in his house
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because it's revealed that Nathan has
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been living in his car he is really
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homeless and doesn't have family and so
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Stan de ask can you stay with me and he
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loves Christmas Dan loves Christmas so
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much he buys all these Christmas gifts
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the whole thing is like this is an
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Afterschool special when later in the
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film it's revealed that Nathan
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unspeakable childhood
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trauma that explains his difficulty
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life and I will say this the the Final
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movie it got me God I was so pissed I'm
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watching this movie I'm watching this
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movie like all like this this is for
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kids this is an after school special and
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then the real life what happened to
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Williams and then the real Nathan
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Williams is in the end of the movie
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briefly at the end of the film and it it
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um there is a charity behind this um
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regarding kids and and childhood trauma
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I don't even want to tell you what
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happened to Nathan Williams as a
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horrifying um but the movie got me and
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I'm sitting here choked up at the end it
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Christmas uh you know and wow I was
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really really like amazed
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so um yeah uh I I recommend it if you're
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looking for something to tug at your
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heartstrings um so you
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know it's Angel Studios it's a real
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story and it's set in the you know 80s
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90s era and um in the end I really
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enjoyed it so I would say support and
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see Brave the dark but get ready the end
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of the movie you might you know bring
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tissues I didn't cry but I got very
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close I got very close so the journey to
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get to the end was that uh tough to get
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through or was it just kind of yeah I
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was like I was kind of checked out I'm
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like well this is kind of for kids it's
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an A but then it really gets when it's
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revealed you know behind why Nathan is
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teenager yeah it's the payoff is great
