Blood Brother

Name: Blood Brother
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 18, 2013
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 71

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Tugg | Release Date: October 18, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Blood Brother is an intimate portrait of Rocky Braat, a young man who longed to find a family. He didn't know it, but this desire would lead him to an AIDS hostel in India, a place of unspeakable hardship, where he would find almost more love and need than he could bear.

Director: Steve Hoover

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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David DeWitt

Oct 17, 2013

A stirring documentary directed with narrative depth and unguarded heart. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Oct 7, 2013

Despite its ostensibly depressing subject and a few tough-to-watch sequences, Blood Brother is never less than engrossing, and it’s often delightful. Read full review

Justin Lowe

Oct 7, 2013

Addressing the heartrending issue of children living with HIV and AIDS is enormously complex, but Blood Brother accomplishes the challenge with sufficient grace and empathy to give hope to anyone concerned with this global affliction. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Dec 12, 2013

No doubt, Blood Brother is narrowly focused on Braat’s needs and evolution, but in contrast to social-issue films filled with talking-head experts and bullet-point graphs, this is a portrait of a caregiver that goes to the core of motivation – in this case, the need to share love. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Oct 24, 2013

Hoover's stubbornly ground-level perspective renders the documentary's lack of context about HIV in India...rather frustrating. But Blood Brother feels important anyway, not so much as a snapshot of one volunteer but for its passionate portrayal of the curative powers of love. Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

Oct 14, 2013

Rocky's journey of self-realization undoubtedly has a universal resonance to it that intermittently yields poignant and inspiring moments. But where are the poor Indian kids in all of this? Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Oct 15, 2013

There are undoubtedly several moving moments in the film, and the kids are gorgeous and heartbreaking, but none of that is strong enough to balance Braat's galling and enabled narcissism, which pervades the film. Read full review

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