Now and then, a kid makes a run for it. In “Short Term 12,” Destin Daniel Cretton’s low-key, high-emotion indie about a foster-care facility for at-risk teens, there are periodic efforts to escape. A ...

Brie Larson, 23, gives a performance in new indie Short Term 12 that's wonderfully nuanced. The Oscars should keep her in mind. In Short Term 12, out in theaters right now, Larson plays Grace, a ...

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Despite its rather drab title, (I mean, really, “Short Term 12” is the best you could come up with?) and its unpromising subject matter, (a kind of halfway house for troubled kids,) this movie turns ...

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - America's foster care system is the unlikely setting for a love story in "Short Term 12," an independent film that examines a young couple's relationship amid the troubles, ...

Watch a clip from the film "Short Term 12." A 20-something supervising staff member (Brie Larson) of a foster care facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and ...

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