Miracle's Boys

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Miracle's Boys is a six part mini-series based on a novel of the same name, by Jacqueline Woodson, shown on The-N in 2005. The series was directed by Spike Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Neema Barnette, Bill Duke and Levar Burton, and was filmed on-site in Harlem, New York. It also includes a theme song by rapper Nas. The series follows the lives of three teenaged boys, who are left orphaned when their mother dies from diabetes complications following the death of their father when the boys were younger. Their father fell into a frozen lake in Central Park trying to save a woman's dog. The eldest Bailey brother, Ty'Ree (Pooch Hall), who is twenty years old, is a mail room manager at a publishing company who got into M.I.T but declined the acceptance to raise his younger brothers; Charlie, (Sean Nelson) the middle boy, age sixteen, has just gotten out of a juvenile detention facility and is mad at the world. Once an avid pet lover and baseball fanatic, life at the Rahway Boys Home has changed him; and Lafayette (Julito McCullum), the youngest Bailey brother at age fourteen, loves and breathes baseball, but his game has been out-of-sync since his mother's passing. Also he has many hardships of a 14-year-old boy, including the fact that his childhood crush likes Charlie. This six part mini-series follows the boys through the hardships of growing up on their own.