My Brother the Movie

Christopher Scott and Donovan Jennings are the first African American actors with Down syndrome to star in a feature film, “My Brother.”

My Brother is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah (played by Nashawn Kearse) and James (Christopher and Donovan). James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L’Tisha (played by Vanessa Williams), finds herself in a tragic situation. Dying of tuberculosis, she desperately tries to get her two boys, eight and eleven at the time, adopted together.Finding that only Isaiah can be adopted. L’Tisha makes the only choice she feels she can make; creating an unbreakable bond of love between the boys, and hoping that bond will get them through life. Her prayers are answered as the boys overcome impossible odds on their way to adulthood, staying as close as ever as young men dealing with life’s obstacles.

Donovan Jennings played the lead of the character James (as a youth), Christopher also played as character James (as an adult).  Off camera Christopher is a teachers’ assistant in Houston, TX.

My Brother was written and directed by Anthony Lover.  This movie is rated PG-13 for violence, some disturbing images and language.

“My Brother” Vanessa Williams Featurette

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