Foster Boy Trailer
Michael Trainer is a lawyer at the center of a trial in which a for-profit Foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his young client Jamal, with catastrophic results. Michael, a successful litigator with a long career protecting corporate interests, wants nothing to do with Jamal's case, until a Judge forces him to accept it. Initially he sees Jamal as a kid off the street looking to grab a piece of corporate profits. But when Jamal refuses to settle the case for any amount of money, Michael begins his representation in earnest. As their work together reveals the horrifying depth of the corrupt and abusive for-profit foster care agency, Michael is transformed from cynical skeptic to fierce warrior in the pursuit of justice.
Matthew Modine, Oscar winner Lou Gossett, Jr., Amy Brenneman, and newcomer Shane Paul McGhie star with Krystian Alexander Lyttle as Young Jamal in the motion picture Foster Boy, a drama that will be released internationally in 2019.
The script is written by attorney-turned-screenwriter Jay Paul Deratany, based on his experiences as a litigator in Chicago. Foster Boy, is directed by Youssef Delara, whose credits include Filly Brown, The Bounce Back, and English as a Second Language. It is produced by Deratany, Peter Samuelson, Anne-Marie Mackay, and Andrew Sugerman.