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ACCELERATED
The story of a single father who, through the ups and downs of his son, learns to be a father and a man.
Accelerated reveals what lies beneath the gilded façade of a tony Upper East Side private school, the sort of place routinely glamorized in film and television, hiding real issues beneath the surface that speak to the wider issues facing America’s educational system. Every afternoon Sean Benning picks up his son, Toby, on the marble steps that lead into the prestigious Bradley School, where everything is accelerated—3rd graders read the 6th grade level and their facilities rival most universities. A single dad and struggling artist, Sean sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the power-soccer-mom cliques and ladies-who lunch. But at least Toby is thriving and getting the best education money can buy… When Sean starts getting pressure from the school to put Toby on medication for ADD, something smells fishy, and it isn’t the caviar that was served at last week’s PTA meeting. To Sean, Toby’s “issues” in school seem to be nothing more than normal behavior for an eight-year-old boy. But maybe Sean just isn’t seeing things clearly—hard to do since Toby’s new teacher, Jess, started teaching at Bradley. And the school should have Toby’s best interests at heart. But what happens when the pressure to not just keep up, but to exceed, takes hold? When things take a tragic turn, Sean realizes that the price of this accelerated life is higher than he could have ever imagined.
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