This touching, low budget documentary from Jonathan Demme, director of The Silence of the Lambs, is essentially a home movie. It interviews and looks at the life of Demme's older cousin Bobby, the Rev Robert Castle, who is the white spiritual leader in a largely Afro-American and Hispanic community in Harlem. His work with a local Black Panther leader in the Sixties gives the film a controversial slant, and the narrative is at its most moving in Bobby's emotional recollection of the drowning death of one of his sons. The extra icing on the cake is camerawork by Ernest Dickerson, who has since turned director himself with such films as Juice.


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