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Quest
Filmed with vérité intimacy for almost a decade, QUEST is the moving portrait of an American family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, parents Christopher 'Quest' Rainey, and his wife, Christine'a 'Ma Quest' Rainey raise a family while navigating the poverty and strife that grips their neighborhood. They nurture a community of artists in their basement home music studio, but even this creative sanctuary can't always keep them safe. Epic in scope, QUEST is a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a testament to love, commitment, healing and hope.
14 September 1973, Queens, New York, USA
11 March 1956, New York City, New York, USA
March 08, 2018
Ordinariness-and [Jonathan] Olshefski's ordinary, level-headed approach to documenting their life-is the keynote of this intensely moving and involving film.
January 23, 2018
Things happen - some severe, some less so - and life goes on. And always there is Olshefski, a one-man film crew who captures it all and distills it for our narrative pleasure.
December 08, 2017
Quest speaks volumes about working-class life and the necessity of community, parenting, perseverance, speaking out, speaking up, hope.
January 04, 2018
At a lean 90 minutes, Quest never drags, but it's also begging to be extended into that update of An American Family which, for some reason, has never materialized.
June 04, 2018
...a story worth telling, but due to a lack of context and poor directing, that story is executed in the most boring manner possible.
January 05, 2018
It may be impossible not to be moved by the goodness, grace and dignity displayed by the Raineys as they weather challenges.
January 04, 2018
"Quest" could very easily have been titled "An American Family" as well.
February 22, 2018
Quest is one of those great movies that captures the turbulent currents of American life by zooming in on a single household.
December 08, 2017
[An] extraordinary documentary.
December 14, 2017
Through eight years of filming ... the director discovers an everyday American story of extraordinary strength.
February 23, 2018
There is no grand narrative or point to be hammered home; instead, Olshefski delivers a subtle, sincere and honest portrait of barely making ends meet in modern America.
December 08, 2017
Olshefski captures the frustration, resignation and determination that leaves you struck by this family -- average in their concerns but extraordinary in their dedication to one another.