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| | A Brooklyn Family Tale. Characters. Commentary | PBS |
 | | I knew beforehand it told the story of the complex relationships and struggles of the Santiagos, a family from Sunset Park Brooklyn, dealing on a daily basis with crime, gangs, drugs, and teenage pregnancy. |
 | | The Center for Family Life, founded twenty years before this film was made, plays an integral part in the lives of the Santiago family members. |
 | | Instead, I began embracing a more generous, textured view in which the problems and difficulties of the Santiago family co-exist with their triumphs and celebrations, thus constituting a multi-faceted, complex family. |
| www.pbs.org /wnet/familytale/characters_commentary.html (753 words) |
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