Best Of: 'Spider-Man' dir. Destin Daniel Cretton / Novelist Harriet Clark
Fresh Air
Aug 15
Best Of: 'Spider-Man' dir. Destin Daniel Cretton / Novelist Harriet Clark
Best Of: 'Spider-Man' dir. Destin Daniel Cretton / Novelist Harriet Clark

Fresh Air
Aug 15
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to break box office records, after having
the biggest U.S. opening weekend in history. Tonya Mosley talks with the film’s
director, Destin Daniel Cretton. Long before Marvel, he worked in a group home
for at-risk teens. He says it's an experience that shaped everything he's made
since then, and became the movie Short Term 12.
Also, we hear from Harriet Clark. She was a baby when her mother was a getaway
driver of a robbery of a Brink’s truck in 1981. The robbers were members of a
radical offshoot of the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers. For 37
years, Clark spent Saturdays visiting her mother in prison. “She figured out how
to mother me in some of the most difficult conditions possible,” Clark tells
Terry Gross. Her novel, The Hill, draws on her experience visiting her mother in
prison.
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