Toe to Toe

Release Date: February 26th, 2010

Director: Emily Abt

Writer: Emily Abt

Starring: Louisa Krause, Sonequa Martin, Hina Abdullah, Sarah Aschenbach, Dionne Audain, Erica Chamblee

Studio: Strand Releasing

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes

The story takes place at a politically correct preparatory school in Washington, DC. Here we find two girls,  black and white,  going toe-to-toe.

 Jesse , a white  girl from a privileged background, riotous and sluttish, seems to be on the brink of self-destructiveness.

The other one is Tosha - an African-American girl with unflinching character, a native of the most impoverished area of DC, Anacostia.

There is a world of difference between them. What do they  have in common? Both are new seniors and star players on their school’s lacrosse team. Despite everything, they get along with each other well.

Soon something comes between them and their new-founded friendship begins to fade away. It is  Rashid, a dandified Lebanese deejay,  who becomes their bone of contention.

  As the story unfolds, a shooting incident takes place.  Jesse is expelled from school for making racist graffiti  on Tosha’s locker. That makes her go off the rails and deeply plunges into the life of dissipation.

But Tosha doesn’t leave Jesse in the lurch and  lends her a helping hand.

Jesse proves herself in the right by sacrificing her own well being for that of Tosha’s.

In such a way once bitter enemies grow into each other’s salvation.

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