Fruitvale Station

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Oscar has never taken the straight and narrow path: the pain he caused his mother, his Latina girlfriend and their daughter after a spell in prison pushes this young black man of 22 to stop dealing and live an honest life. He just needs to work out one "small" problem: how to find a job after being fired for repeatedly being late. Deciding to stick to his New Year’s resolutions, Oscar first spends New Year’s Eve in San Francisco watching the fireworks together with his friends. But after he inadvertently gets involved in a fight on the train back to Oakland, Oscar and his friends are arrested by some very nervous cops...