Watch a clip from the film "Short Term 12." A 20-something supervising staff member (Brie Larson) of a foster care facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and ...

Short Term 12 is a 2013 drama film written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. The film follows a young supervisor at a residential treatment facility for troubled teens. It focuses on how she ...

A 20-something supervising staff member of a foster care facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.

Destin Daniel Cretton was just trying to give a struggling young actor a job. How hard could it be? He and LaKeith Stanfield had worked together three years earlier, on a 22-minute short film Cretton ...

The unembellished emotional honesty conveyed in the indie drama Short Term 12 is so expertly handled that it carries the viewer past any hesitations harbored regarding the film’s overly familiar ...