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'The Road Up': Film Review

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, some films take on more relevance than anyone could have planned. (Contagion is just the start.) The Road Up, a worthwhile new documentary about a Chicago jobs-training program, has the bad luck to be the opposite kind.

It takes viewers into a program called Cara, which offers practical help to people who are especially challenged in finding employment, often because of prison sentences or personal histories with drugs.

Cara's heartfelt message of hope still stands, but must have been far more convincing before the pandemic caused unemployment numbers to soar.

What now? Much of The Road Up was shot in 2016, but it feels like an artifact from the distant past, desperately in need of an update.

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