Stevie (film)

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Stevie
Directed by	Steve James
Running time	140 min.
Language	English
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Stevie is a 2002 film by documentarian Steve James. In 1995 James returned to Pomona, a rural town in southern Illinois, USA. He attempts reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an 'Advocate Big Brother' to ten years earlier.

At the center of Stevie is the relationship between James and Stephen Fielding, who was a troubled, desperately shy boy when James served as his Big Brother while attending graduate school in southern Illinois. Ten years later, promises to keep in touch fallen by the wayside, James returns to find that Fielding has grown into a troubled young man who's been in and out of jail several times, still lives with his grandmother, can't hold a steady job and has grown a calloused exterior around his childish shyness. By the time James returns two years later, things have gone from bad to worse: Fielding has been charged with sexually molesting his 8-year-old niece.

Stephen Fielding is due to be paroled November the 16th, 2008. Fielding is currently incarcerated in the Pontiac Correctional Center.