Canal Street has too many factual errors and a bit too much melodrama for me to give it a high rating. I do applaud the producers, crew, players for their sincere efforts to find common ground in the USA. A country deeply divided by the cutting edge of racism.

There was a line in Inherit The Wind where the Henry Drummond character talks about the forces of fanaticism that "are forever busy and need feeding"., Some event that they can exploit.

Such as it was with the death of Kevin Quinn in this film, a popular white kid from the Cook County suburbs found shot to death on his front lawn and left with a new friend who was black Bryshere 'Gray kneeling over him.

Gray is arrested for the crime and prosecuted in Chicago. The city is deeply divided as the various clips of commentators show. Blessed are the peacemakers indeed.

The producers of Canal Street could have used a lot of watching of Law And Order and its many spinoffs. Too many factual errors here that have been caught by me and fellow reviewers to give it a higher rating.

Kholi Styles (Bryshere Y. Gray) is from South Chicago. His dad is an attorney, as they recently moved to an upscale neighborhood. After a party where there was drinking, lily-white Brian Sudermill (Kevin Quinn) is found dead at 4:30 AM outside his door. Kholi, who drove him home, is discovered standing over his body. He is charged with murder by a black DA from the neighborhood wanting to be mayor. His dad defends him mostly on faith alone.

This is a spiritual production that talks way too much about stereotypes. It got in the way of the film. We got the picture in the first few minutes, yet we are flooded with Second City talk show flunkies. The quality was better than the African-American films from Atlanta.

No swearing, sex, or nudity.

I watched an hour of this film. It was very boring and not very good acting either. Black lives matter did come into this a huge American movement. No i doubt if i will see the end unless it is on tv and i have nothing else to do.