Miracle's Boys
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Miracle's Boys is a six part mini-series based on a novel of the same name, by Jacqueline Woodson, shown on The N in 2005. The series was directed by Spike Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Neema Barnette, Bill Duke and Levar Burton, and was filmed on-site in Harlem, New York. The series follows the lives of three teenaged boys, who are left orphaned when their mother dies of a heart attack. The eldest Bailey brother, Ty'Ree (Pooch Hall), who is twenty years old, is a mail room manager at a publishing company; Charlie, (Sean Nelson) the middle boy, age sixteen, has just gotten out of a juvenile detention facility and is a mad at the world; and Lafayette (Julito McCullum), the youngest Bailey brother at age fourteen, loves and breathes baseball, but his game has been out-of-sync since his mother's passing. This six part mini-series follows the boys through the hardships of growing up on their own.