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Heart of Stone (2009 film)
''Heart of Stone'' is a 2009 documentary film about Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey, the United States, directed by Beth Toni Kruvant, with Zach Braff serving as executive producer. The film relates the struggles of Principal Ron Stone and the rest of the school's administration, plus students and alumni to return the school, working with African American and Jewish alumni, to its previous glory in the years before the 1967 Newark riots.
==The film==
The film documents Weequahic High School which graduated some of the top students in the country after opening in 1932 and was "known as one of the top schools in America before 1960", with graduates such as novelist Philip Roth.〔 By 2000, the school had disintegrated into a breeding ground for gang violence. ''The New York Times'' described the film as having the potential to be an ordinary story of a hard-nosed principal facing down gang members, but the film actually tells the inspiring portrait of a bold principal who works with gang leaders and Jewish and African American alumni to give his students a hopeful future.〔〔Genzlinger, Neil. ("A Principal’s Principles" ), ''The New York Times'', July 17, 2009. Accessed October 14, 2009.〕 ''Heart of Stone'' focuses on the crisis in education in Newark as an example for the entire nation, showing how an alumni group raised $400,000 with one of its co-founders being Hal Braff, the attorney father of actor Zach Braff.〔Klein, Julia M. ("Shaking Up Weequahic" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 11, 2009. Accessed October 14, 2009.〕
The film's title comes from the school principal's last name, but also the director's belief that a heart of stone was needed to face the difficult challenge of earning the respect of the school's students, many of whom are gang members. Stone's strategy was not to confront the gang bangers but to make use of their "natural leadership abilities" and to use their skills to help improve themselves and their school and to help end the pattern of violence in the school building.〔Goldrich, Lois. ("Film tracks alumni efforts to help troubled school" ), ''Jewish Standard'', May 15, 2009. Accessed October 14, 2009.〕
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