Quest

Name: Quest
Genre: Music, Family, Documentary
Released: December 8, 2017
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 88
Cast: Adia Dillon, Christine'a Rainey, Christopher Rainey, David Barnes, Isaiah Byrd

2017

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First Run Features | Release Date: December 8, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Adia Dillon, Christine'a Rainey, Christopher Rainey, David Barnes, Isaiah Byrd, James Blakely, Nicole Byrd, P.J. Rainey, Price, William Withers

Summary: Filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, Quest is the moving portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Christopher "Quest" Rainey, and his wife, Christine'a "Ma Quest" raise a family while nurturing a community of hip hop artists in their home music studio. It's a safeFilmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, Quest is the moving portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Christopher "Quest" Rainey, and his wife, Christine'a "Ma Quest" raise a family while nurturing a community of hip hop artists in their home music studio. It's a safe space where all are welcome, but this creative sanctuary can't always shield them from the strife that grips their neighborhood. Epic in scope, Quest is a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a testament to love, healing and hope. [First Run Features]… Expand

Director: Jonathan Olshefski

Genre(s): Music, Family, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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G. Allen Johnson

Dec 29, 2017

A moving, quite amazing documentary. Read full review

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Guy Lodge

Dec 7, 2017

[A] living, breathing, stunning documentary. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Dec 14, 2017

Olshefski excerpts and shapes the passing years with a fluent intimacy that makes the calamitous intrusion of random gun violence, and its lasting effect on the Raineys’ daughter, PJ, all the more shocking. Read full review

David Fear

Dec 9, 2017

In the end, what Quest gives you is not just well-earned empathy but the pleasure of the Raineys' company, and that is what genuinely makes it worth seeking out and seeing ASAP. Read full review

The Playlist Bradley Warren

Dec 7, 2017

It is Olshefski’s humanist portraiture of one family’s quotidian lives that is certain to stir audiences. Read full review

Helen O'Hara

Dec 9, 2017

The resulting account contains a quietly powerful political statement. Read full review

The Guardian Phil Hoad

Dec 7, 2017

Sadly, the problems affecting the Raineys, the African American family whose north Philadelphia home accommodates this heartening documentary, are all too familiar: poverty, drugs, gun violence. Read full review

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