Growing up Smith

Locations
Call Number: DVD Comedy Growing
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Westgate Adult A/V 1-week checkout	DVD Comedy Growing	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult A/V 1-week checkout	DVD Comedy Growing	1-week checkout	Due 04-28-2024

Title from sell sheet.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.
Jason Lee, Anjul Nigam, Brighton Sharbino, Hilarie Burton, Roni Akurati.
It's the feel-good, coming-of-age story of Smith, a ten-year-old boy from India growing up in Small Town, America in 1979. As the boy's family tries to straddle the line between embracing the American Dream and preserving their Indian heritage, Smith sneaks out for a taste of Kentucky Fried Chicken, dons a Saturday Night Fever costume, and contends with his parents as they send him to school with a yellow squash instead of a pumpkin to carve for Halloween.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great movie submitted by katieepage on August 11, 2017, 11:04pm Excellent characters, funny and sentimental about a kid growing up in an immigrant family in the US. This is Highly recommend.

Sweet story submitted by ferielp on August 17, 2018, 11:22am As an Indian living in the US, it warms my heart to see any kind of representation of how difficult it is to reconcile your heritage with a new culture. The characters played into some stereotypes and the movie does wrap up the kid's story neatly, but it was still very enjoyable.