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'Homeroom': Film Review | Sundance 2021

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Early in Peter Nicks' Homeroom, the documentary announces itself as a chronicle of Oakland High School's 2019-2020 year. This activates an ominous metaphorical ticking clock.

You don't need heavy-handed foreshadowing to know that the class of 2020 is the COVID Class, to realize that the prom the bright-faced teens are looking forward to will never happen, that the graduation they're aiming for will be virtual, that the production of In the Heights scheduled to open on March 20 is never going to see its curtain raised.

Homeroom is, in that sense, an inspiring tragedy, a portrait of resilient youth in unprecedented circumstances, the sort of thing that hasn't yet oversaturated Sundance, but probably eventually will.

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