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FOSTERING HOPE Film set to tell Pemberton’s harrowing—and triumphant—story BY DAVID A. F. SWEET THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
In the 2012 memoir A Chance in the World, Lake Forest resident Steve Pemberton recounts his years growing up as a foster child in Massachusetts. The book brims with horror—yet ends up triumphantly. Last year Pemberton’s terror-filled recollections from his upbringing in New Bedford, Massachusetts, were turned into a movie. On February 23, the Lakeside Legacy Foundation and A Chance in the World Foundation will host a viewing of Giving Our Children ‘A Chance in the World’ at Lakeside Arts Park at the Dole in Crystal Lake. Pemberton, who served as an executive at Walgreen Co. in Deerfield and lived in Highland Park for many years, will attend the event, and special Steve Pemberton
“I envision the film being part of a guests will include actor Eric Roberts (Runaway Train) and his wife, actress/ family’s movie night or utilized in casting director Eliza Roberts (Animal classrooms by educators that want to House); Eliza’s son, Keaton Simons convey a lesson about perseverance. A (writer and composer of “Find Us”); Chance in the World is not about the tragedy but about the triumph.” and WGN Radio’s Kathy Hart and Frank Fontana. Proceeds will benefit Pemberton chronicles how a new Lakeside Arts Park at the Dole, CASA home beckoned to him when the of McHenry County, and Big Broth- orphan was 6. A woman named Mrs. ers Big Sisters of McHenry Country. Robinson smiled and made him feel Closely involved with the making welcome—until the social worker who of the independent film, Pemberton deposited him there departed. Within admits watching it at first was a little seconds, Mrs. Robinson demanded odd. Pemberton do the dishes. The first one “It’s the closest to time travel I’ll ever not up to par resulted in a smack to get,” Pemberton notes. “It was surreal his face. The disparagements unleashed to see parts of your life created on a inside the Robinson house (from movie set. What has brought me the “Something about you isn’t right” to greatest joy was to see the lives of the “You are here to wait on us hand and everyday heroes who touched my life foot”) seem stolen from Les Misérables. reflected on the screen. The film is in Some days, before leaving for school, part a tribute to them—and their he was told he’d be beaten when he goodness. Continued on PG 8
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