Short Term 12 is a 2013 drama film written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. The film follows a young supervisor at a residential treatment facility for troubled teens. It focuses on how she ...

Brie Larson, 23, gives a performance in new indie Short Term 12 that's wonderfully nuanced. The Oscars should keep her in mind. In Short Term 12, out in theaters right now, Larson plays Grace, a ...

Actress Ellen Travolta and a regional foster youth nonprofit will host a 2 p.m. Sunday fundraiser featuring the film, “Short Term 12,” in Coeur d’Alene. Shown at Regal Theater at the Village at ...

Destin Daniel Cretton was just trying to give a struggling young actor a job. How hard could it be? He and LaKeith Stanfield had worked together three years earlier, on a 22-minute short film Cretton ...

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