Here’s a synopsis: When fifteen year-old Cole (
McLaughlin) is expelled from school in Detroit, he is sent to North Philadelphia to live with Harp (
Elba), his estranged father. Harp finds solace in rehabilitating horses for inner city cowboys at the Fletcher Street Stables, a real-life black urban horsemanship community that has provided a safe haven for the neighborhood residents for more than 100 years.
Torn between his growing respect for his father’s community and his reemerging friendship with troubled cousin Smush (
Jerome), Cole begins to reprioritize his life as the stables themselves are threatened by encroaching gentrification.
The new movie is inspired by the novel “Ghetto Cowboy” by