Past Run
The Rule
See how Benedictine monks in the heart of one of America's most dangerous cities are able to achieve amazing success with the most vulnerable population: inner city African American and Latino teenage males. While Newark, New Jersey, with a high poverty rate of 32%, has an abysmal high school graduation rate, St. Benedict's Prep has a near 100% college acceptance rate. The film details how their "recipe for success" follows the sixth century Rule of Saint Benedict and how this rule can serve as a model for whole cities nationwide.
“This uplifting documentary offers a rare ray of hope in its portrait of an urban school that's defying the odds.”
— Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
FROM THE VAULT
Where it played at Laemmle — 1 engagement