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The House that Love Built

2025
Directed byDerrick Benton
1h 40m

In 1980s Brooklyn, a resilient family, evicted from public housing, refuses to succumb to homelessness or welfare. Instead, they construct their own home-one scrap of discarded wood at a time.

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Emuel BentonSelf (Archive Footage)Shirley Rowena BentonSelf (archive footage)Derrick Benton
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STATUSReleased
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NR

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