Product Description

Academy Award-nominated LEGACY is the unflinching chronicle of one family’s triumphant journey out of povery and despair. Touchingly narrated by Nickcole Collins, a teenage girl wise beyond her years, the film follows the Collins family over five years as they slowly pull themselves out of a haze of poverty, drug addiction, and violence that plagues their public housing project in Chicago. Stereotype-busting and open-minded, LEGACY paints the American Dream in honest colors to rousing effect. Improbably, the senseless killing of 14-year-old Terrell, a straight-A student and role model for the neighborhood, spurs the family to seek a better life against impossible odds. Nickcole’s mother, a high school dropout, moves in fits and starts to find a meaningful job. Aunt Wanda, mother of Terrell and longtime crack addict, enrolls herself in a drug treatment program. Nickcole catapults herself out of the inner-city trap to a college degree and a comfortable life. It’s impossible not to cheer for these incredible real-life people as they cry and laugh, stumble and get back up again on their way to something better. In LEGACY, award-winning filmmaker Tod Lending does that rarest of things--he gives voice to the voiceless. The result is a stirring, must-see film that is "inspirational in the best sense of the term" (Variety). DVD Features: Trailer; Filmmaker Interview; Collins Family Update; Deleted Scene: Interview with O’Brian McGee; Filmmaker Biography; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41698 in DVD
• Brand: New Video
• Released on: 2006-06-27
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

Legacy is a winner!
Legacy is a sure winner. This documentary covers the lives of three generations of women as they struggle through life. These women live in poverty and desperation, but still manage to love eachother and work as a family unit. The murder of a close family member ends up providing the inspiration for finally securing better lives for themselves.

A must see-phenomenal!
"Legacy" should be broadcast on national televison. . .There are so many damaging ideas of what happens in the urban ghettoes of our nation. . .I lived in the city of Chicago for sixteen years, and for almost a decade defended convicted felons in the appeals of their convictions. . .Today I teach high school in the Twin Cities (MN) and on a daily basis instruct young people who have fled the mean streets of Chicago's West Side--one of the only places in America that harbors a significant number of families who are subject to multi-generational public assistance dependency (see William Julius Wilson's book: "When Work Disappears"); yet, in this beautiful documentary the strength of a family--all women--shone through this tragedy. . .I show this to my students every year, not your typical Minnesotans--95% non-white, 60% English as a second language, 90% free and reduced lunch, and it serves as an inspiration for them. . ."Legacy" should be seen by all Americans. . .