Movie "Off and Running"

Great Movie of teen girl trying to figure out who she is.... Review Summary Do you feel black?Ӕ a counselor asks Avery Klein-Cloud in the documentary Off and Running,Ӕ voicing the question that hovers subliminally over every scene. Avery, an African-American teenager, is clear. I donӒt know what that means, she says, though the film has already suggested that the answer is no. All Avery understands, by her own admission, is how to be white and Jewish. Raised in an observant household in Brooklyn by Tova Klein and Travis Cloud, a lesbian couple with two other adopted, nonwhite children, Avery is a gifted athlete and a loving sister. But when she reaches out to her birth mother in Texas, her need to connect with the past jeopardizes her future and distances her from the only family she has ever known. ԗ Jeannette Catsoulis