Weekend Movie Forecast: This Is It Vs. Boondock Saints II

Skin is the awfully true story of Sandra Laing, a black girl born to white parents (unaware of their black ancestry) in 1950s South Africa. At the age of ten she is sent to boarding school, and confronted with the country's legalized racism, is reclassified as black and expelled. Through her family's fight for acceptance, Laing learns she may never be accepted by either community. And though the apartheid story has been told before (even recently with District 9), "writer-director Fabian's heartfelt attentions occasionally flirt with melodrama, but those honest, unaffected portrayals--especially Okonedo's thoroughly believable two-decade age span--ultimately keep the picture on the right emotional track," according to Michael Rechtshaffen of Hollywood Reporter.