Tomorrow's Hope brings us into the journey of passionate educators and tenacious kids and their families on the south side of Chicago, determined to carve out the future despite a sea of incredible challenges.
In the film we reunite with three present-day high school seniors who had started out in the Educare preschool's first-ever class, exploring the continuing effects of early childhood education as they navigate their way through difficult circumstances.
While today the Educare Early Education Center is going strong, in the documentary we learn about its utterly harrowing yet remarkable early stages as "The Beethoven Project" located within "Forgotonia" – a name the film's Portia Kennel uses to describe what was at the time the largest housing project in the world.
Exploring the contrast of promises kept against a pervasive backdrop of promises broken, Tomorrow's Hope celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.
Music Box Theatre screens films of all genres and from every era of cinema, both new releases and repertory. These films may sometimes contain upsetting, outdated, or offensive material. While we aim to introduce many of our screenings, we do not always provide warnings about potentially triggering content within the films we screen. We encourage our patrons to research the film before they attend using trailers, reviews, or content information found on Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com.
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