The Fits

I liked this one a whole lot, but there really isn't much to it. (Which may have been what I liked about it.) Almost every character in this is a young black woman (there's one notable slightly less young black guy) and it takes place in a Cincinnati school and gym. The plot, inasmuch as there is one, revolves around an epidemic of shaking and seizures ("the fits") that seems to be affecting the girls on a dance team one by one, starting with the older girls, then working its way down the social totem pole. Main character Toni isn't worried about the fits at first, then resents her same-aged friends for having them, and the movie ends with - spoilers, yeah, but none of you are going to watch this - Toni enduring her own bout of the fits. Guys, the fits are a metaphor! Thin-as-hell story aside, I loved the way this thing was shot, the way it felt, the way it used nothing but first-time (and likely last-time) actors who were just inner city Cincinnati kids. It's eighty minutes long and on Amazon Prime if you feel like checking out some solid, simple film making.