In this lively trip back to the 1990s, complete with a female-dominated soundtrack, Harris digs beneath the ‘sassy urban’ archetype with a story about the lives of people we think we know.
In a captivating debut, Johnson plays precocious a Brooklyn teen Chantel, who’s headed for medical school and determined to be more than ‘a girl from around the way’.
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
The story of Chantel, a precocious Brooklyn teen who’s determined to be more than ‘a girl from around the way.’
- 1992 USA
- Directed by
- Leslie Harris
- Produced by
- Erwin Wilson, Leslie Harris
- Written by
- Leslie Harris
- Featuring
- Ariyan Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido
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