First the nightline 5. What does it take to stay close to a dad whos oceans away . A box of crayons. A fleet of paper airplanes. A nextdoor neighbor with a box. And a delivery from overseas. That make the distance disappear. Paper and packaging. Seconds. Good evening. Thap are thanks for joining us. Tonight many in chicago saying, enough is enough. Protesters taking to the streets demanding action. Its the latest clash in an a city thats lost so many sons and daughters. Spike lees latest film chiraq takes a look at the violence thats plagued the city. The toll its taking and one mother whos fighting for change. Heres my nightline coanchor byron pitts. This is my son, my baby. Reporter pam bosley knows chicagos pain like few others. A doting wife and mother. Thats terrell, her oldest boy, raised in the church beside her. The last time they talked thats where he was. He was at church. I was like, baby, be careful. Hes like, ma, youre always worrying. Im good, i dont know why youre tripping, aint nothing going to happen to me. My next call was, my baby been shot. Reporter he was 18, a college freshman, never a days trouble, gunned down on his way into choir practice on chicagos south side. Terrell collapsed at the pastors feet. I need you now. I need you now reporter the suspected wannabe hoodlum ordered to gun down a stranger. Terrell bosley happened to be that stranger. Songs that once soothed pams soul now only add to her suffering. I cant watch no more. Thats my baby. So i really dont watch the videos. Because hes supposed to be still here singing. Reporter pams son just one of the thousands who have died here in the past ten years. Chicago has one of the nations highest murder rates. And in the past month, news of the deaths of two young africanamericans 9yearold day shon lee, a target in a gang war. This is my only baby. Reporter and 17yearold laquan mcdonald, shot 16 types by a Chicago Police officer have reignited an old fuse. A bomb generations in the making. We as a city must and can do better. Reporter today protests erupted all over the city. Demonstrators stormed the Mayors Office demanding his racist Police Reporter after the release of multiple ved yoes showing Police Officers involved in violence. It wasnt the police who killed pam bosleys son. Nearly a decade later she still doesnt know who pulled the trigger. 70 of the cases are not solved in chicago. 70 of the cases in chicago are unsolved. The community i live in is not valued. Reporter pam bosley is not a statistic, shes a commentator. She did what good parents are supposed to do, yet her boy still died. You hear people talk about all the time what parents dont do, that their kids get in trouble because they didnt have this. You have a beautiful home, loving husband, believing in the importance of education, discipline, did everything right. Yes. The perception of our black men is that theyre all in gangs and sell drugs. Thats the perception we have to get away from. A lot of them are good kids that are being killed. Reporter so afraid of the pam and her husband built this backyard patio. This is the safe haven spot that i put together for terrell. Reporter it didnt protect terrell. Now she keeps an even tighter grip on their two remaining sons. Lovely as your home is, it seems like a prison. It is. My middle son told me, mom, youve got me living inside this box, can you let me outside . I try to let him out a little bit. But it is a prison. Reporter its the senseless violence in chicago that inspired spike lees newest satire chiraq. The title, where did the word come from, whyd you use it . Local chicago rappers made it up, not me. I used it for the same reason they thought it up. We started filming chiraq june 1st, ended on july 9th. During that time, 331 people wounded and shot, 65 gun murdered. Land of pain, misery, strife. Reporter the real meets the surreal. Two rival gang leaders engage in the citys south side. Why do this movie . What do you want the audience to take away from it . Usually when i get asked that question i say, i dont want to dictate the audience, tell them what i think. I make an exception in this case. We have to talk about guns. Guns affect every american citizen in this country. Reporter in a departure from his lighter roles nick cannon plays a ruthless gang leader. We force our men to negotiate peace. Reporter chiraq is based on the ancient greek play where a group of women wage a sex strike to persuade their men to drop their guns. We know the power we have over them withholding just a day. Reporter actress tiana paris stars as leader of the strike. All you care about is this tired gangster game. Its lame. What drew me is i remember getting the script from spike. The first thing he said to both of us is, we have to save lives. Timeout. Save lives . Yes, absolutely. Thats a high bar. It is. How does this movie save lives . When you look at these communities, its drugs, women, and guns. Those are the pillars. And in order to break that system you have to come in and knock one of those pillars down. Its a powerful thing to see a powerful black woman. It only takes one person to start a movement. This is my version of a superhero. Outstanding. Saving lives. Thats our job. Reporter the premise of chiraq may seem outlandish, the characters more like cairk ra tours of black america. Credit ins say lees choices trivialize harsh reality. There are those who see this movie and say, the serious issues going on in chicago, how dare you do a movie with satire . Chiraq is not the first film in the history of cinema subject matter. Jennifer hudson. Shes in the film. Her mother, brother, nephew were murdered in chicago. If this film is not righteous, she would not be part of it. When a murderer walks free, we are all in danger. Reporter john cusacks character in the film is a loose portrayal of reallife chicago priest father michael flagger. Taid we stop a shooting, im the happiest man in the world. Reporter hes led a congregation in chicagos south side for the last 30 years. For those who would be offended by the title, chiraq . I say, you ought to be offended that this beautiful great city that i love has 2,350 shot, primarily black and brown. If those were primarily white kids . America would have dealt with it. When i have a sixth grader who says to me, when i ask her what she says, alive. No child should have to wrestle with that kind of thinking at sixth grade. Reporter the father counseled the bosleys after the death of their son. I dont come by here at all. Reporter we were with pam outside the church where her world was shattered, when she got unsuspected news about her sons suspected killer. The pastors wife was telling me somebody came to the church and said the person who shot terrell got shot and killed. They just told me. What does it do to your spirit to hear that . Even though that person got shot and killed, i wanted that person to go to jail. Cycle just continuing . Yeah, it is. Reporter tonight or whatever night the demonstrators go quiet, the politicians move on, the casualties of chicagos war from within will keep dying inside just a little bit more. You going to be okay . You know what, im going to be okay when i die and go to heaven with my son terrell and with god. Reporter for nightline, side of chicago. Our thanks to byron pitts. Chiraq is in theaters now. The fresh new faces of star wars the force awakens dishing about what happened on set. The top ten trending global videos of 2015. 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Plot details of star wars the force awakens remain under wrap. Yet while the seventh film in the star wars series will bring back to the big screen such beloved figures as luke, princess leia, han solo, chewbacca. The movie features two newcomers facing off against the dark side. I dont know your name. Finn. Whats yours . Im rey. Reporter an exStorm Trooper shes really cool. Fy had a little sister i would be so pleased for her to see the character. Are we really doing this . Heroes for this new generation, played by two freshfaced 23yearolds from the uk. John boyega and dazely ridley. Im shaking, this is insane. Reporter boyega looked at original star wars auditions. Youre on your own, ill let your own, ill let you off on the nearest system. You cant. Weve come this far, we must find them. You talk about star wars acting. In a normal movie if you were am a ship, it was about to crash, the characters would call their family and tell them they love them and cry. In star wars its like, whoohoo weve done a lot of that. Reporter taking her own approach, ridley, for her first major film role made the choice not to pore over the earlier films at the outset. Know it that well because i didnt feel like i was trying to fit into anything. I was just trying to do a good job. Reporter joined by adam driver playing dark side demon kylo ren with the much buzzed about light saber. The first time theyve been able to actually put light in it where it reflects two peoples faces and do special effects and 3d print, the whole thing armed with lights and special effects, its pretty heavy. Reporter a whiz bang pilot, accomplished actors, with memories of star wars from childhood. This is crazy, look around. What was your First Experience of a Star Wars Film . Return of the jedi. Really the moment when darth vaders helmet comes off is what i remember. It stuck with me very much. It was such a weird, sad man underneath that. You were right about me. It will be like when his my dad had a Storm Trooper helmet hes helmet hed chase us around the house with. Terrifying. Thats great. Thats great. Trying to make us cry. I punched him in the nose one time, he was very proud of me. So thats how i was exposed to it, through pain and misery. Reporter the force awakens begins 30 years after return of the jedi with rey compelled to caf vage on an arid planet. She has no family, she has no friends. For someone to maintain a hope within that is a wonderful then. Camera, action reporter guidance occasionally from j. J. Abrams, stepping into george lucas shoes, but from the on the set presence and involvement from the original cast. This is the real thing. Were actually doing it. Thats chewbacca, thats peter mayhew, thats anthony daniels, thats harrison, carrie, mark i think that for me made it very real. You might need this. I think i can handle myself. Did you sit in harrison fords seat . I did. I piloted the falcon. I went to step into it and hes like, thats mine. It wasnt funny, it was really embarrassing. J. J. Is like, oh my god. But he was gracious. He offered to teach me a little bit. He did say, remember, its in space. Like i didnt know what i was doing, just flipping switching and pretending. Reporter less pretending called for on the force awakens with abrahams emphasizing socalled practical effects over computergenerated imagery, the real thing. Bb8. Are we really doing this . Bb8, hold on. Yeah, whatever, mate. I didnt do that. Shut up. I can say that bb8 is the first kind of real relationship and its so pure. Its wonderful. When it came to humans i was probably intimidated. Like oh my gosh, can i go back to the droid . Reporter for its two young leads the chance to see the finished film well before its december 18th american release date was huge. We sat around together for an hour. On the car on the way to the airport i cried a lot. I didnt know why i was crying. It was a very odd out of body kind of experience. It was fantastic. I think im great in it. Oh, gosh. I think i head somewhere youve been cuddling your dog and baking cakes to keep from going out and having to say what happens in star wars . Thats my life. I dont do that to stop the rest of my life, that is my life. Reporter perhaps not for much longer. Stardom may beckon after the world gets to see these two in action wearing their force awakens wardrobe. Youll never see this costume clean because of the stuff that happens when im wearing it. Were going to wear that beautiful number . We tried a couple combinations. When we got to the desert, obviously its designed for the desert, it just felt perfect. It fits to the atmosphere so well. Reporter the atmosphere had temperatures that soared to 120 degrees, leaving these two grateful for the physical training they endured. We were both so relieved. When we got to abu dhabi we had to run so much. Without the preparation, we would have john, daisy, again, faster . Faster, mere intense . More enceintense . Reporter for nightline im Chris Connelly in los angeles. Star wars the force awakens is produced by a division of abcs parent company, disney. Was it the officer shaking it off in his cop car . President obama reading mean tweets for jimmy kimmel . Trending videos of 2015 . So. If youre like most people you can sometimes end up spending an embarrassing chuck of time falling into a youtube rabbit hole. Catchy tunes, comic pratfalls, emic pranks. Theres no shortage in the quest for picks. Whos the winner . 2015, a year of prolific prank and sensational spoofs. Youtube releasing its top ten trending global videos of 2015. Shake it off. Players gonna play to play play reporter 37 million dancing with him. Roman atwood with this crazy plastic ball prank at number three. A whopping 56 million views and counting. Number two is the clash of chance revenge super bowl commercial. Liam neeson battling it out for more than 83 million views. You will regret the day you crossed angry neeson 52. Reporter and at number one, if you have an 8yearold in your life, you have it on repeat. Heaven king with this rendition of watch me. As in whip and nene. Views. But none of these come close to the most viewed Youtube Video of alltime. Gangnam style. And no end in sight. Got to love the koreans. Thanks for watching. Tune into Good Morning America tomorrow first thing. As always were online 24 7 on our Nightline Facebook page