Little Boxes

Eleven-year-old Clark (Armani Jackson) wants to be cool at his new school, and he has decided that means acting more black than he knows how to. His parents, Mack (Nelsan Ellis) and Gina (Melanie Lynskey), came from New York, where they never had to explain themselves, and now they are guessing at how to live in a town of white neighbors. Rob Meyer keeps the camera at the family's level, in the kitchen and the car and the yard.