Antwone Fisher
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Antwone Fisher is a remarkable true storey portraying a young man on the path to recovery from haunting childhood memories of sexual and physical abuse throughout his life. Antwone Fisher is a young navy sailor, who is on the verge of getting kicked out of the military because of his violent temper, at this point he is ordered to seek psychiatric evaluation the navy's psychiatrist Dr. Jerome Davenport. In the first couple of sessions Fisher is unable to reveal his pain to Davenport. He spends the first sessions starring at the wall without speaking a word. Although eventually he opens up to Davenport, he recaps through the difficult memories of his Cleveland childhood, mostly life with his terrible, vicious stepmother, who beats him, scares him and ties him up in the basement on a regular basis. She tries to make him and his step brothers and sisters compete with each other, so they will grow to hate each other. She doesn't even call him by his name; she refers to him and his step brothers as Niger. His foster sister also abuses him, but sexually.
Fisher and Davenport soon form a father-son bond; fisher even has strong motherly feelings towards Davenport's wife...