Film Review: Ricky Staub’s ‘Concrete Cowboy’ Starring Idris Elba & Caleb McLaughlin

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Concrete Cowboy is about a different kind of urban cowboy — in this case, an outcast Black teenager who finds an unlikely home amongst a group of horse aficionados in a Philadelphia ghetto. N…

) is circling the drain at home; the 15-year-old is in trouble at school and his single mother is entirely fed up; “You’re going to drown,” she screams at him before sending him off to Philly to spend the summer with his long-absent father.

Advising the new arrival that “hard things come before good things,” an attentive neighbor woman Nessi puts the kid to work in the stables, a fate the urban teenager was certainly not anticipating. But it turns out that Dad, whose name is Harp, runs The Fletcher Street Stables, and much of the life on this block revolves around the horses and the nice big park across the street.

A greater threat than the stock hoodlum characters is the city government, which has already diminished the horse activity in the area and, with an eye on future real estate action, now looks to get rid of the animals entirely. Although big money and “progress” win almost every time in cases like this, some sort of compromise is indicated in the end credits.

 

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Nothing about the neighborhood where Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club is located says slums what hell is wrong with you all. Do you call where working class white people live the slums

Smdh two things that are in accurate as someone that has made Philly area my home and went to college in North Philly calling that neighborhood the slums and the ghetto is racist and offensive. Just because it’s an area of working class people doesn’t make it the slums

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