Same Kind of Different as Me

Ron Hall, an art dealer, agrees at his wife Debbie's insistence to volunteer at a shelter in order to save his marriage. There he meets Denver, an angry, silent man nobody goes near. Denver grew up in the cotton fields of Louisiana under conditions close to debt slavery and trusts no one. Michael Carney adapted the memoir written jointly by Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn Vincent. The story places questions of class and race inside a friendship and aims openly at feeling; the criticism concentrated on exactly that, on the white character positioned as saviour. Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou, Renée Zellweger and Jon Voight star. Who it is for: viewers who like faith and friendship drama based on real events. Who it is not for: anyone troubled by the saviour template.